Legal History in the Curriculum

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; Part 2: Legal history courses; 5. An immersive, cross disciplinary, approach to undergraduate legal history - 'A Public Spectacle': Murder and the Law in Nineteenth Century Newcastle; 6. 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