Legal History in the Curriculum - Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions

This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential.

List of contents

Introduction; Part 1: Legal history in the core curriculum; 1. Contextualising Law for both scholarship and practice: the contribution of Legal History; 2. Feminist Legal History at the Heart of the Law Curriculum; 3. Teaching Public Law through Empire's Archive; 4. Using history to contextualise, diversify and criticise the contract law curriculum; Opportunities in teaching global legal history; 7. Anachronisms in legal historical education: pitfalls, benefits and their importance for every lawyer; Part 3: International perspectives; 8. Teaching English Legal History at the Continental University: A Case Study of the University of Lodz; 9. The purpose(s) of teaching legal history in contemporary Poland: Current situation and future perspectives; 10. Tracing Threads: Brazilian Legal History's Evolution, Research Reflections, and Educational Perspectives; 11. The contribution of Legal History to the curriculum of the modern law school: the Argentinian perspective; Conclusion

About the author

Caroline Derry is Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University, UK and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Carol Howells is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Howells Derry
• Assisted by: Derry Caroline (Editor), Carol Howells (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032754970
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275497-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Transforming Legal Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Legal Education, Legal History, comparative law, Teaching of a specific subject, Legal system: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Legal systems: general