The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education
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The Law Teacher is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research addressing legal education and the teaching of law at all academic levels and in all jurisdictions | Published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social and the journal of @altlaw.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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de Vries responds to Cartwright and discusses 'the didactic aim of assessment': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A response to Cartwright’s plea against summative assessment: The didactic aim of assessment
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
de Vries responds to Cartwright and discusses 'the didactic aim of assessment': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cartwright suggests 'There is no baby, just lots of bathwater' when it comes to summative 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Cartwright suggests 'There is no baby, just lots of bathwater' when it comes to summative assessment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tavares da Silva discusses the Portuguese Higher Education context and responds to Guth and Shipton: 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)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Tavares da Silva discusses the Portuguese Higher Education context and responds to Guth and Shipton: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Guth and Shipton speak 'in defence of the traditional essay': 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Guth and Shipton speak 'in defence of the traditional essay': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ávila Rodríguez and España Pérez respond to Rhodes and consider the regulatory conditions governing Higher Education in Spain: 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Ávila Rodríguez and España Pérez respond to Rhodes and consider the regulatory conditions governing Higher Education in Spain: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rhodes advocates for 'Ipsative assessment': 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Rhodes advocates for 'Ipsative assessment': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hargreaves responds to Lorber, asking 'Do students need an AI toolkit?': 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)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hargreaves responds to Lorber, asking 'Do students need an AI toolkit?': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Lorber discusses 'Generative AI, law schools and assessment' and asks 'where next?': 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Lorber discusses 'Generative AI, law schools and assessment' and asks 'where next?': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Graham responds to Cahill-O’Callaghan et al, considering the opportunities and challenges created by their approach: 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)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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....
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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....
Claessens responds to Kerin, considering their proposals in the context of the Netherlands: 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)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Claessens responds to Kerin, considering their proposals in the context of the Netherlands: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kerin proposes 'developing a curriculum-wide assessment strategy': 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 ...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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....
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October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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....
And Mutalib et al review "Evidence: Law and Context": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Evidence: law and context
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
And Mutalib et al review "Evidence: Law and Context": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mazhar and Fox review "Feminist approaches to PhD supervision": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Feminist approaches to PhD supervision
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mazhar and Fox review "Feminist approaches to PhD supervision": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mak and Odusanya review "Gender-competent legal education": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender-competent legal education
Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2025)
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mak and Odusanya review "Gender-competent legal education": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Greentree and Roberts discuss "Policy brief writing as authentic assessment in Administrative law": 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)
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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....
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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....
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yuratich explores "Student law reviews, belonging and community in the UK law school": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Murray and Lythgo-Gordon discuss "Collaboration, challenges, and coming together: belonging in the law school Pods": 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...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Murray and Lythgo-Gordon discuss "Collaboration, challenges, and coming together: belonging in the law school Pods": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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....
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...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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....
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....
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...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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....
Ní Drisceoil's "Critiquing commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school: who does the labour?": 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...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ní Drisceoil's "Critiquing commitments to community and belonging in today’s law school: who does the labour?": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....