Geared to doctoral candidates, the Legal Education Seminar (LAWG 525) taught by Professor Shauna Van Praagh provides a forum for a sustained discussion on the learning and teaching of law.
By delving into examples found across time and space, participants reflect on the ways in which legal education continues to be evolve. In particular, the objectives of (legal) education, and the connections among universities, professional bodies, and broader community organizations are explored through a series of current and challenging themes. In their essays, seminar participants reflect on the future of legal education by exploring features of the governance and pedagogical frameworks associated with the teaching of law.
We share here some of the papers written by past seminar participants on various themes raised during the seminar over the past few years in the form of a working paper series. Past participants who would like to contribute their papers can shauna.vanpraagh [at] mcgill.ca (email Shauna Van Praagh).
Romana-rivas, Yuri Alexander. « Legal Pluralism And The Teaching Of Indigenous Legal Traditions: A Comparative Analysis Of Indigenous Legal Education At Faculties Of Law In Canada And Colombia » (2022)
Ampleman-Tremblay, Sandrine. « Law Schools’ Duties Toward Victims of Sexual Assault » (2020)
Atagher, Luter. « Legal Education for a changing market: Reconciling tradition with dynamism » (2019)
Bateman, Eliza. « Legal Ethics in the Modern Law School: Lessons from America » (2015)
Chantal Bellavance. « Unsafe Spaces: An Essay on the Future of Legal Education » (2019)
Chipeur, Stephanie. « We are Overlawyered and Underrepresented: Why Reorienting the Career Paths of Law School Graduates is the Future of Legal Education » (2016)
Giroux, Kathryn. « The Direction of Legal Education Reform: Facilitating Access to Justice » (2016)
Guðmundsdóttir, Valgerður. « The Approach to Gender and Race issues in Icelandic Legal Education » (2020)
Habermacher, Adrien. « The Valourous Path Forward: A Polyglot Legal Education in Canada » (2016)
Hughes, Alexandra. « There’s a Reason it’s Not Spelt Legalease: Legal Education as Second Language Acquisition » (2015)
Iavarone-Turcotte, Anne. « Law’s religion at stake: Trinity Western University and the prospect of religious legal education » (2016)
Iavarone-Turcotte, Cléa. « L’étudiant, le coeur de la faculté de droit ? » (2016)
Major, Blair. « Taking Up the Challenge of a Trinity Western University Law School » (2015)
Morosan, Dan. « The Future of Legal Education. A Manifesto Towards a More Digitized Law School » (2016)
Murray, Joanne. « The Hierarchy of Opposition in Legal Education. A Letter to Prof. Robert Leckey (the incoming Dean of the McGill Law Faculty) » (2016)
Pasca, Alexandra. « The Future of Legal Education in a Globalizing World: Culture of the Body, Mind and Soul » (2016)
Por, Bradley. « Teaching Privilege in Legal Education: Placing Lawyers on the Road to Justice » (2015)
Tepper, Eytan. « Guess Who's Coming to Lecture: Using “Virtual Guest Lecture” to Support the Role of the Classroom Professor » (2016)
Whitehead, Christopher. « Cultivating Humanity and Practicality in Legal Education: The Case of a Course in French Insurance Law » (2016) [The paper has been removed, as it has been submitted for publication in a journal]
