1st Edition
Legal History in the Curriculum Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions
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 teaching 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
11. The contribution of Legal History to the curriculum of the modern law school: the Argentinian perspective
Viviana Kluger
Conclusion: The Law Schools of Tomorrow: A Collection of Future Legal Histories
Russell Sandberg
Biography
Caroline Derry is Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University, UK, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Carol Howells is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK.
