Modernising Legal Education

Catrina Denvir is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, Victoria. She was previously Inaugural Director of the Legal Innovation Centre at Ulster University. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, the University of Cambridge, and holds a Ph.D. in Law from University College London.

• Foreword Julian Webb; Introduction Catrina Denvir; 1. Do lawyers need to learn to code? A practitioner perspective on the 'poly-technic' future of legal education Alexander Smith and Nigel Spencer; 2. Experiential legal education: stepping back to see the future Jeff Giddings and Jacqueline Weinberg; 3. Skills swap? Advising technology entrepreneurs in a student clinical legal education program Ian Walden and Patrick Cahill; 4. Scaling the gap: legal education and data literacy Catrina Denvir; 5. Bringing ODR to the legal education mainstream: findings from the field Genevieve Grant and Esther Lestrell; 6. Design comes to the law school Margaret Hagan; 7. Developing 'nextgen' lawyers through project-based learning Anna Carpenter; 8. Same as it ever was? Technocracy, democracy and the design of discipline-specific digital environments Paul Maharg; 9. Ludic legal education from Cicero to Phoenix Wright Andrew Moshirnia; 10. The gamification of written problem questions in law: reflections on the 'serious games at Westminster' project Paresh Kathrani; 11. Virtually teaching ethics: experiencing the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour using immersive virtual reality Sylvie Delacroix and Catrina Denvir; 12. Paths to practice: regulating for innovation in legal education and training Julie Brannan and Rob Marrs; 13. 'Complicitous and contestatory': a critical genre theory approach to reviewing legal education in the global, digital age Jane Ching and Paul Maharg; Afterword; Index.

'This book is an essential read for those interested in legal education. Through detailed examples and analysis, it points the way forward to ensure we are educating for the current and future rather than the long gone past.' Christina Blacklaws, Immediate Past President of the Law Society of England and Wales, independent consultant and chair of the UK's LawTech Delivery Panel