The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education

We're starting 2026 off with the publication of our final issue of Volume 59. It's a self-described "bumper" issue, including a special issue on new trends in teaching contract law. You can find all the brilliant entries online, with print editions landing soon: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ralt20/c...

... held by the University of New South Wales, emphasising what pedagogic research can offer to legal educators as well as on how to succeed in carrying out and publishing legal education research. You can watch a recording of the session online here: echo360.net.au/media/756fc1... (2/2)

The value of pedagogical research is something that The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education seeks to highlight. Our General Editor, Emma Jones recently spoke at the Legal Education Research Conference, ... (1/2)

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A response to Cartwright’s plea against summative assessment: The didactic aim of assessment Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)

de Vries responds to Cartwright and discusses 'the didactic aim of assessment': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is no baby, just lots of bathwater: an argument against summative assessment This article challenges the belief in the necessary relationship between summative assessment and quality education. I argue that assessment serves the interests of neoliberal structures, rather th...

Cartwright suggests 'There is no baby, just lots of bathwater' when it comes to summative assessment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A response to Guth and Shipton “Of babies and bathwater: in defence of the traditional essay” Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)

Tavares da Silva discusses the Portuguese Higher Education context and responds to Guth and Shipton: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Of babies and bathwater: in defence of the traditional essay Assessment is always a hot topic in education, and has come into sharp focus recently in legal education with the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). It has brought increas...

Guth and Shipton speak 'in defence of the traditional essay': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A response to Rhodes “Ipsative assessment - the legal journey not the destination” The present study is organised into four sections. In the first, we provide a brief introduction. In the second, we analyse how responsibilities are distributed in establishing the national and reg...

Ávila Rodríguez and España Pérez respond to Rhodes and consider the regulatory conditions governing Higher Education in Spain: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ipsative assessment – the legal journey, not the destination Ipsative assessment operates so students’ academic performance is not predicated on high-stakes end-point assessment. Instead, overall student achievement is measured on making the most progress fr...

Rhodes advocates for 'Ipsative assessment': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A response to Lorber: Do students need an AI toolkit? Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)

Hargreaves responds to Lorber, asking 'Do students need an AI toolkit?': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Generative AI, law schools and assessment: where next? Generative artificial intelligence (GAI), and its most known form to students at the time of writing, ChatGPT, created a storm in the world of higher education (HE) when it was first launched in No...

Lorber discusses 'Generative AI, law schools and assessment' and asks 'where next?': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A response to Cahill-O’Callaghan et al “Reassessing land law” Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)

Graham responds to Cahill-O’Callaghan et al, considering the opportunities and challenges created by their approach: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cahill-O’Callaghan et al set out their approach to 'introducing greater authenticity to undergraduate assessment and the challenges of innovation' in the context of Land Law: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A response to Kerin “Developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy: Assessment in Legal Education Back to the future Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)

Claessens responds to Kerin, considering their proposals in the context of the Netherlands: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy This paper presents a future-oriented vision for legal education, with a focus on what assessment practices can and should be. It aims to stimulate dialogue by proposing a curriculum-wide strategy ...

Kerin proposes 'developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their editorial, Bansal and Canto-Lopez explore how the seminar brought together a range of contributors to explore how assessment in legal education could be reimagined: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Issue 59(3) is now online! Featuring a range of papers stemming from the @altlaw.bsky.social / @theltjournal.bsky.social annual seminar prize event on assessment in legal education.

Evidence: law and context Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)

And Mutalib et al review "Evidence: Law and Context": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feminist approaches to PhD supervision Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)

Mazhar and Fox review "Feminist approaches to PhD supervision": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gender-competent legal education Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)

Mak and Odusanya review "Gender-competent legal education": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Policy brief writing as authentic assessment in Administrative law Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)

Greentree and Roberts discuss "Policy brief writing as authentic assessment in Administrative law": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bromfield and Sproule on "SQE: a challenge and an opportunity": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yuratich explores "Student law reviews, belonging and community in the UK law school": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Collaboration, challenges, and coming together: belonging in the law school Pods In 2006, the School of Law at the University of Wollongong (UOW) Australia introduced an innovative approach to legal education which transformed the educational journey of its first-year law stude...

Murray and Lythgo-Gordon discuss "Collaboration, challenges, and coming together: belonging in the law school Pods": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Working-class imposterism in the law school: “I always have this in the back of my head that I’m expected to fail” Working-class students have long faced classism in higher education (HE), particularly in so-called “elite” universities. The study and practice of law are renowned for their exclusive status, hist...

O'Connor on "Working-class imposterism in the law school: 'I always have this in the back of my head that I’m expected to fail'": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...

Adebisi discusses "Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critiquing commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school: who does the labour? This article offers a critique of commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school. Notwithstanding the importance of community and belonging, it argues that we need to challenge our co...

Ní Drisceoil's "Critiquing commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school: who does the labour?": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Promoting belonging through trauma-informed legal education This paper draws upon empirical data to argue that trauma-informed approaches to legal education are valuable and important in promoting student belonging. It discusses the concepts of trauma and b...

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Jones et al on "Promoting belonging through trauma-informed legal education": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@theltjournal.bsky.social Issue 59(2) is out! Our latest special issue "Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Moving Beyond Ice-Breakers in Understanding Sense of Belonging in Law Schools" explores 'the complexities in defining, understanding and experiencing belonging': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....