Legal History in the Curriculum: Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions

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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.

Introduction

Caroline Derry and Carol Howells

Part 1: Legal history in the core curriculum

1. Contextualising Law for both scholarship and practice: the contribution of Legal History

Nandini Boodia-Canoo

2. Feminist Legal History at the Heart of the Law Curriculum

Caroline Derry

3. Teaching Public Law through Empire’s Archive

Tom Frost

4. Using history to contextualise, diversify and criticise the contract law curriculum

Fred Motson

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

Jennifer Aston and Helen Rutherford

6. Opportunities in teaching global legal history

Lorren Eldridge

7. Anachronisms in legal historical education: pitfalls, benefits and their importance for every lawyer

Mariken Lenaerts

Part 3: International perspectives

8. Teaching English Legal History at the Continental University: A Case Study of the University of Lodz

Łukasz Jan Korporowicz

9. The purpose(s) of teaching legal history in contemporary Poland: Current situation and future perspectives

Tomasz Kucharski

10. Tracing Threads: Brazilian Legal History's Evolution, Research Reflections, and Educational Perspectives

Kauan Juliano Cangussu