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Let me introduce my friend, law: a pedagogical tool for supporting diversity and critical thinking in the legal classroom

Twemlow, Joy

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If law was a person, what kind of person would they be? In this article I discuss the process of designing and delivering a first-year law seminar around this question. I explain how the question was leveraged towards the aims of (a) creating space for diverse perspectives and (b) developing critical thinking skills among the law students: dispositions we felt were important for law students to establish early in their legal studies. I further explain how critical pedagogy and playfulness informed the seminar structure and allowed us to design the class towards these two aims. While both student and tutor feedback on the seminar was positive, I conclude by outlining potential areas for improving the seminar design and delivery.

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Twemlow, J. (2023). Let me introduce my friend, law: a pedagogical tool for supporting diversity and critical thinking in the legal classroom. The Law Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2023.2200712

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 5, 2023
Online Publication Date May 15, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date May 17, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The Law Teacher
Print ISSN 0306-9400
Electronic ISSN 1943-0353
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2023.2200712
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1172349

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.




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