Academic Learning in Law

Edited by Bart van Klink, Professor of Legal Methodology, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Ubaldus de Vries, Institute for Jurisprudence, Constitutional and Administrative Law, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

'At a time when the performative demands of the neo-liberal university threaten to marginalise liberal and post-liberal traditions of critical enquiry, it is important to be reminded that a quality legal education can be both richly sceptical and imaginative. For those interested in deepening their students' empirical, normative and affective understanding of legal phenomena, and of their own place in the legal word, this collection of essays offers both a multi-faceted account of educational praxis and some persuasive examples of how we can educate better.'

• Contents:Foreword1. Introduction1Part I THEORY AND LEGAL EDUCATION2. Knowledge and Aphasia: What is the Use of Skeptical Legal EducationBart van Klink3. Re-Bildung: An Ideal Reconsidered for Legal EducationLyana Francot and Luigi Corrias4. Academic Education and SocialisationAnja Böning5. The Necessary Loneliness of Teaching (and of Being a Legal Academic)Anthony BradneyPart II Experimental Courses6. Teaching International Law Critically- Critical Pedagogy and Bildung as Orientations for Learning and TeachingChristine Schwöbel-Patel7. Learning Law Differently: The Importance of Theory and MethodologyBal Sokhi-Bulley8. Empirical Methodologies Knowledge and Expertise: A ‘Necessary’ Skill for Lawyers?Terry Hutchinson9. Visuals for a Critical Legal ReflectionWibo van Rossum10. For a New and More Diverse Comparative Legal EducationSabrina GermainPART III DIDACTIC INNOVATIONS AND LEARNING EXPERIMENT11. Orchestrating Encounters: Teaching Law at a Liberal Arts and Sciences College in the NetherlandsBarbara Oomen12. Students’ Perception and Legal EducationGülriz Uygur13. Learning How to Read a Case: Resources from the Visual and Dramatic ArtMaksymilian Del Mar14. Law & Lounge: An Experiment on Student Self-Organisation and Critique as Skeptical Reflexivity Ubaldus de Vries15. Epilogue: An Overview, Reflections and a Student’s PerspectiveTim Bleeker16. Conclusions: Concrete Proposals for Change: 14 ThesesBart van Klink and Ubaldus de VriesIndex