The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life: Beyond Text in Legal Education (Emerging Legal Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138272574 ISBN 13: 9781138272576

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - especially those from the visual and performing arts - nourish the imagination needed to confront the ethical complexities of particular situations? This book asks and answers these questions, thereby introducing radically new resources for law schools and law firms committed to fighting against the moral complacency that can all too often creep into the life of the law. The chapters in this volume build on the companion volume, The Arts and the Legal Academy, also published by Ashgate, which focuses on the role of non-textual resources in legal education generally. Concentrating in particular on the moral dimension of legal education, the contributors to this volume include a wide range of theorists and leading legal educators from the UK and the US.

About this title

About the Author:

Zenon BaĊ„kowski is Emeritus Professor of Legal Theory at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh and a community mediator. He was Principal Investigator of the AHRC Beyond Text in Legal Education Project, based at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Maksymilian Del Mar is Reader in Legal Theory at the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. He has a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Social Science from the University of Lausanne. He is Co-Convenor of the Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group at Queen Mary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138272574
• ISBN 13: 9781138272576
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bankowski Zenon