Legal History in the Curriculum
Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2025
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-032-75497-0 (ISBN)
Description
As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school. How and why should we teach legal history? What is its place in the curriculum? What can different jurisdictions learn from each other?
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. The book's three sections explore practices and possibilities in the core curriculum, in dedicated legal history courses and in law schools across the world. They highlight how legal history offers diverse and inclusive content, global perspectives, and transnational understandings to students. By exploring contributors' own purposes and practices, they provide insight and fresh ideas on how and why readers can incorporate legal histories into their own teaching.
The volume will be an invaluable resource for all those involved in the teaching of law and the law school curriculum.
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. The book's three sections explore practices and possibilities in the core curriculum, in dedicated legal history courses and in law schools across the world. They highlight how legal history offers diverse and inclusive content, global perspectives, and transnational understandings to students. By exploring contributors' own purposes and practices, they provide insight and fresh ideas on how and why readers can incorporate legal histories into their own teaching.
The volume will be an invaluable resource for all those involved in the teaching of law and the law school curriculum.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate
Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 7 s/w Tabellen
7 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-75497-0 (9781032754970)
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Additional editions
Caroline Derry | Carol Howells
Legal History in the Curriculum
Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Caroline Derry | Carol Howells
Legal History in the Curriculum
Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
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 Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK.
Carol Howells is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK.
Content
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