1st Edition

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

Edited By Daniel Bansal, Maribel Canto-Lopez, Jess Guth Copyright 2026
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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 “There is no baby, just lots of bathwater: an argument against summative assessment”: The didactic aim of assessment

Bald de Vries

Biography

Daniel Bansal is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester, UK.

Maribel Canto-Lopez is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester, UK.

Jess Guth is the Head of School for Business and Law at Leeds Trinity University, UK.