Rethinking Assessment in Legal Education: Global Perspectives on Innovation, Inclusion, and Integrity

Author: Daniel Bansal; Maribel Canto-Lopez; Jess Guth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781041306443
Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book explores one of the pressing questions in legal education today: how assessment can be reimagined to better support learning, promote equity, and reflect the realities of modern legal practice. The collection focuses on reforming assessment in legal education in England and Wales, aiming to promote more inclusive, diverse, and authentic assessment strategies that recognise assessment's role in driving student experience, engagement, and professional formation.

The book adopts a distinctive dialogic format where contributors outline proposals for redesigning elements of legal assessment, grounded in their pedagogical experience and responsive to concerns of fairness, accessibility, professional relevance, and student voice. Each proposal is followed by a commentary from an academic in a different jurisdiction, offering comparative insight and reflective critique. This structure brings international perspectives into conversation with domestic debates, highlighting shared challenges whilst identifying context-specific solutions across diverse legal education systems.

This book was originally published as a special issue of The Law Teacher.

Introduction: Assessment in legal education

Daniel Bansal, Maribel Canto-Lopez and Jessica Guth

1. Developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy

Marie Kerin

1a. A response to Kerin “Developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy: Assessment in Legal Education Back to the future

Sjoerd Claessens

2. Reassessing land law: introducing greater authenticity to undergraduate assessment and the challenges of innovation

Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan, Natasha Hammond-Browning, and Lee Price

2a. A response to Cahill-O’Callaghan et al “Reassessing land law”

Nicole Graham

3. Generative AI, law schools and assessment: where next?

Pascale Lorber