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Legal Education Review
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ISSN 1839-3713 · Bond University · 444 articles in the index
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Assessing the Transformative Learning Impact of International Study Tours in Clinical Legal Education
International study tours have an important role in undergraduate education, due to their capacity to foster students as global citizens, facilitate critical reflection and support the development of professional identity. By situating students’ learning within authentic and unfamiliar contexts…
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TEACHING DOCTRINE IN CONTEXT: USING A SITUATED CASE BRIEF TO BRIDGE THE ACADEMIC–VOCATIONAL DIVIDE IN A CROWDED LAW CURRICULUM
The crowded law curriculum presents an enduring challenge for legal educators, particularly in doctrinally dense subjects which must adhere to accreditation requirements. This article examines how a situated, semester‑long case brief can integrate doctrinal learning, skills development, and…
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Rethinking Law Honours: Vocational Motivations and Barriers for High-Achieving Law Graduates
This study investigates the low enrolment in the University of Southern Queensland LLB Honours program, with only approximately 4% of eligible graduates pursuing it. An anonymous online survey of 66 high-achieving LLB graduates (GPA ≥ 5.0) from 2020-2024 explored motivations and barriers…
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DESIGNING A PILOT MENTORING PROGRAM FOR A PRIESTLEY 11: A TIERED AND TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH WITHOUT CROWDING CURRICULUM
Without access to mentoring programs, law students at Australian universities are simply missing out. The purposes of mentoring programs are multifarious and include cultivating pastoral support, sense of belonging and inclusion; enhancing study skills, communication skills, collaboration skills…
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CAN TEACHERS CATER FOR STUDENTS’ DIVERSE NEEDS WITHOUT INCREASING THEIR OWN WORKLOADS? A TRIAL OF AUTOMATIC NO-PENALTY EXTENSIONS
Universities increasingly strive to support diverse student populations, yet current accommodation systems often rely on reactive, disclosure-based processes that can add to academic workload and reinforce deficit-framing of students with atypical learning needs. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)…
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Teaching Legal Theory in a Crowded (and Uncrowded) Curriculum
This article examines the challenges and opportunities of teaching legal theory, focusing on the dual dynamics of a curriculum that can feel both crowded and uncrowded. Here, ‘crowding’ refers not only to excess content and competing demands within the classroom, but also to the broader…
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Centring New Students’ ‘Non-traditional’ Strengths: a Challenge for Legal Education
This article interrogates the concept of ‘non-traditional’ law students. It proposes an alternative lens for framing these students, based on Tara Yosso’s concept of community cultural wealth (‘CCW’). Through a case study of a project conducted at Western Sydney University (‘WSU’) Law School during…
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Introducing a Trauma-Informed Matrix: A Resource for Academics to Support Criminal Law and Criminology Students
Students are distressed, student wellbeing services are overwhelmed, and the need for criminal law and criminology academics to access trauma-informed training and tools has never been more urgent. This paper presents a trauma-informed matrix, developed as an easy-reference guide to trauma-informed…
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Fear of Administrative Law? Student Emotions Around Studying Administrative Law at an Australian University
Existing research and scholarship have established that emotions impact on student learning. However, to date, there has been little research regarding the learning experiences of students studying administrative law at the tertiary level. In this exploratory study at an Australian…
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‘This Could Be Me’: Law Students’ Experiences of a Rural, Regional, Remote (RRR) Clinical Program
This article describes a rural, regional, remote (RRR) clinical legal education program that was piloted in Queensland. Nine students attended four regional community legal centres during the summer and winter break of 2024 for two weeks. The students were interviewed upon their return. Students…
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Capturing the Essence of Contemporary Law School Engagement: Tech, Social Justice and Online Engagement
Amidst an emerging focus on technology in the curriculum and a sustained student commitment to social justice, the global COVID-19 pandemic drastically and permanently changed the tertiary learning environment. Law students and educators rapidly moved to online learning, resulting in many…
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Of Clubs and Clans: The 'National Pattern' of Higher Education in the United Kingdom and its impact on Law Schools
The higher education sector of the United Kingdom with its long history dating back to 1096, has since developed, through a series of government reactions and actions to primarily financial concerns, into a highly stratified institutional environment that not only shapes the hierarchical and…
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ChatGPT & Other Generative AI Tools as University Teaching Aids
This paper describes experimentation with various generative AI tools in the delivery of a large lecture course at a law school between September and December 2023. Three techniques were adopted – AI-generated lecture summaries, AI-generated quizzes used in a ‘low-stakes’ setting, and a course…
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Dear (Legal) Ed: One Indigenous Scholar's Reflections on 30 years of Interactions with Legal Education
In this work, the author, a Red River Métis legal scholar, mobilizes autoethnographic and Indigenous Women’s Life Writing research methods to speak back to her experiences in legal education that span over three decades. Engaging with literature on the struggles of Indigenous learners and academics…
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Supervising Undergraduate Law Students’ Dissertations: A Four-Step Review
The literature on supervision focuses primarily on postgraduate supervision. Whilst there is some scholarship on supervising undergraduates, there is essentially no scholarship on supervising undergraduate law students specifically. This article investigates undergraduate law students' attitudes…
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Psychological Distress at a Regional Australian Law School: Reporting on Law Students’ Experiences of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Legal education in Australia is constantly evolving to meet the needs of law students and to prepare many of them for roles in the legal profession. Examples include changes to law degree structures, optional elective units, and subjects aimed at preparing law students to be ‘workplace ready’. Law…
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Using Inclusive Socratic Method to Remove Barriers to Diverse Student Engagement in Law School Classrooms
The Socratic method has been a foundational pedagogical approach in legal education to elicit reasoned responses and effective arguments from students. While this technique is seen as an effective means of building critical thinking skills and challenging students to analyse complex legal concepts…
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Legal Education for Non-Lawyers as ‘Legal First Aid': A Participatory Inquiry into Law for Social Work Students
The article documents the experience of the authors in creating and re-calibrating a compulsory legal module within a Bachelor of Social Work degree as a course in 'legal first aid'. The article explores the pedagogical approach the authors developed, which is based on continually explaining to…
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How are Australian Universities and Law Schools Approaching Sustainability in their Curricula and what are the Implications for Legal Education?
This article examines how Australian universities and law schools are approaching sustainability in their curricula and then explores the implications for legal education. It first looks at some broader questions about the interpretation of sustainability and the relationship between…