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Subversive Legal History: A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education

Subversive Legal History: A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education

Hardcover

Series: Transforming Legal Histories

General EducationGeneral LawTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0367191296
ISBN13: 9780367191290
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 30 2021
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget.

It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is actually arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialised is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that legal change on a larger scale is possible. Far from being archaic, this recasts legal history as being anarchic.

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