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This book examines the challenges of bringing cutting edge research in often controversial areas into the law syllabus and explores how academics can effectively adopt a holistic approach to research and pedagogy when teaching rights and justice.
Sommario
Preface; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Teaching Constitutional Law When the Constitution is in Peril; 3. Church-State Law: Navigating Culture Wars in Politically Controversial Areas of Law with Research Informed Teaching; 4. Clinical legal education, just not as you know it: Innocence work and its pedagogical benefits and challenges; 5. Teaching (In)Justice: Navigating the Fault Lines in Criminal Procedure; 6. Teaching Law Students to Advocate for Human Rights and Global Justice through the UPR Project at BCU; 7. The changing experience of teaching Public Law since 2010: New Labour, a novel coalition government, the Scottish referendum, Brexit and the trampling of constitutional norms; 8. International Internships: Preparing Students for Rights and Justice in Action; 9. UK politics and Human Rights: From New Labour's Human Rights Act 1998 to the Conservative's Bill of Rights Bill; 10. Upholding the racial hierarchy: The so-called perspectivelessness of legal study skills; 11. Human Rights Education in Times of Adversity: UK Government Agenda on Refugee Issues; 12. Teaching and debating the legal protection of philosophical belief in the workplace in a university law school; 13. "But it's all about women though" Socio-Legal and Gender research in the core curriculum
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Stephen Hurley is a Senior Lecturer in Employment and Equality Law at the University of Winchester. He is a solicitor and formerly an Employment Law Partner in private practice. For over a decade he has taught law at undergraduate and postgraduate level at a number of UK universities and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has published in the area of disability harassment and fraud in the workplace.
Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. He is the Director of the Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group at the University of Worcester. He has published on areas such as accountability, the Chagos Islands litigation, human rights, the UK constitution and impeachment.
Riassunto
This book examines the challenges of bringing cutting edge research in often controversial areas into the law syllabus and explores how academics can effectively adopt a holistic approach to research and pedagogy when teaching rights and justice.
