The Law Teacher: The International Journal of 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...

Featuring in this issue:

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....

SQE: a challenge and an opportunity Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Bromfield and Sproule consider 'SQE: a challenge and an opportunity': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Gender-competent legal education Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Mak and Odusanya review 'Gender-competent legal education': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

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 on 'Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Teaching international law: an example of project-based learning International lawyers at law schools have dual tasks: research and teaching. The former helps international lawyers become known in the field and necessitates them following current developments an...

Çağlayan examines 'Teaching international law: an example of project-based learning': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Judicial education in a brave new world: the Singapore perspective Judiciaries are increasingly confronted with pervasive challenges unfolding and gaining momentum across the globe. In this article we examine the crucial role of judicial education in preparing jud...

Skead and Yeo discuss 'Judicial education in a brave new world: the Singapore perspective': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

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 on 'Critiquing commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Policy brief writing as authentic assessment in Administrative law Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Greentree and Roberts discuss 'Policy brief writing as authentic assessment in administrative law': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

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...

In case you missed them, this May in @theltjournal.bsky.social:

O'Connor considers 'Working-class imposterism in the law school': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Registration open for Legal Education & the Human Lawyer educatinghumanlawyers.com online June 27, 9:30-3:00 ET! Explore what is unique&impt abt human legal expertise & how legal ed shd help students develop these capacities. Thx to @altlaw.bsky.social @theltjournal.bsky.social @osgoode.bsky.social.

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...

Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong.
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Mazhar and Taha examine 'Transitioning from PhD to an academic career': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Feminist approaches to PhD supervision Published in The Law Teacher (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Mazhar and Fox review 'Feminist approaches to PhD supervision':
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Overreliance on summation assessment in Ghana law schools: shifting regime towards a balanced inclusion of teacher and externally administered standardised assessments to measure effective legal knowl... Whatever an assessment’s purpose, to achieve it, it must be valid, reliable and fair. Failing means that the process has not met the cardinal pedagogical principle of evaluating effective learning ...

@theltjournal.bsky.social publications in April:

Manu, Nkansah and Asare discuss 'Overreliance on summation assessment in Ghana law schools': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Call for Papers: The Role of AI in Legal Education | Marloes Spreeuw 🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 Symposium: The Role of AI in Legal Education – Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers 🗓️ Date: Thursday 11th September 2025 📍 Location: Westminster Law School, University of ...

@theltjournal.bsky.social is always excited to support legal ed research alongside @altlaw.bsky.social. Later this year, Westminster Law School will host a one-day symposium on The Role of AI in Legal Education - Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers. Check out their call for papers below:

Joy, connection and doing things differently: reflecting on the connecting legal education “Fest” In this short piece, we provide a reflection on the inaugural Connecting Legal Education Fest. In doing so, we draw on three core themes – joy, connection, and doing things differently – that helpe...

As well as, Ní Drisceoil et al on 'Joy, connection and doing things differently: reflecting on the connecting legal education “Fest”': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Illuminating the law doctoral researcher’s web of mental and emotional support Support models in UK law schools almost exclusively cater to undergraduate students, leaving law doctoral researchers to engage with institutional support systems that fail to meet their mental and...

Mazhar and Fox write about 'Illuminating the law doctoral researcher’s web of mental and emotional support': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Johnson and Strevens analysis of 'Mistakes as milestones: rethinking legal education for enhanced learning': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Investigating law students’ empathy to issues of environment and development: lessons from a group project in Sri Lanka The Environmental Law course of the Open University of Sri Lanka’s LLB programme offered students a group project activity to foster humanistic attributes, especially empathy, towards environment a...

Guneratne et al on 'Investigating law students’ empathy to issues of environment and development: lessons from a group project in Sri Lanka': doi.org/10.1080/0306...

Nicolson explores 'Legal education and legal theory: the determined province of jurisprudence textbooks': doi.org/10.1080/0306...