Legal Profession

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

Edited by Daniel Bansal · Maribel Canto-Lopez · Jess Guth
New Arrival Routledge May 2026

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ISBN-13
9781041306443
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
May 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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

Table of Contents

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
3a. A response to Lorber: Do students need an AI toolkit?
Stuart Hargreaves
4. Ipsative assessment – the legal journey, not the destination
Rick Rhodes
4a. A response to Rhodes “Ipsative assessment - the legal journey not the destination”
Carmen María Ávila Rodríguez and José Alberto España Pérez
5. Of babies and bathwater: in defence of the traditional essay
Jessica Guth and James Shipton
5a. A response to Guth and Shipton “Of babies and bathwater: in defence of the traditional essay”
Suzana Tavares da Silva
6. There is no baby, just lots of bathwater: an argument against summative assessment
Nick Cartwright
6a. A response to Cartwright’s plea against summative assessment: The didactic aim of assessment
Bald de Vries
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