Law
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Law Schools: Alternative Assessments & Teaching Methods for a Liberal Arts Education
In this article, I argue that alternative assessments should be used in law schools to re-orientate…
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Hypotheticals by Geoffrey Robertson (1985 – 1990): A TV Review
In the early 1980s, Geoffrey Robertson was approached by a CBS broadcaster to create the first…
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Book Review: Inside Family Law: Conversations from the Coalface
I was recently given an advanced copy of Zoe Durand’s Inside Family Law: Conversations from the Coalface.…
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Law Schools are Failing Their Students
This is a brief excerpt from my book Legal Education, Privatization and the Market, about the…
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A History of Law Schools: A Battle Between Law as a Science and Law as a Liberal Art
The history of law schools is a battle of ideas. Ideas over what the law is,…
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The Real Socratic Method: Law Schools Fail to Understand Why Socrates Asked So Many Questions
In a true Socratic law school, I suggest, students would be instructed to ask questions to…
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Is law a social science? Lessons from a Canadian law school
From their very first lectures, law students are told not to equate legal ethics with morality, to…
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Law Schools in Canada: Writings of the First Toronto Law Dean W.P.M. Kennedy (2)
My purposes in this article are narrowed to two points : (i) a statement of the…
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Thomas Jefferson: How Law Should be Part of a Broad Training in the Liberal Arts
I find it interesting sometimes to contrast the narrow, vocational-based education system we have today with…
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Law as a social science: Toronto Law School and WPM Kennedy
In the process of writing my PhD, I have stumbled upon the writings of WPM Kennedy,…
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