Imperatives for Legal Education Research: Then, Now and Tomorrow (Emerging Legal Education)

In the last few decades university teaching has been recognised as an activity which can be studied and improved through educational scholarship.In some disciplines this is now well established. It remains emergent in legal education. The field is rich with questions to be answered, issues to be raised.This book provides the first overall review of legal education scholarship.The chapters outline the history of legal education research and provide a detailed analysis of the trends in areas of publication.Beyond this, the book suggests a typology for further conceptualising the field and a series of suggested paths for future research.The book originated from the 2017 UNSW conference "Research in Legal Education: State of the Art?" It features internationally respected authors who bring their perspectives on how legal education - as a field of research - should be conceptualised.The collection is arranged into three themes. First, a historical view is taken of the emergence of legal edu