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Tiêu đề
Legal Inquiry: A Liberal Arts Experiment in Demystifying Law
Tác giả
Sandomierski D.
Năm xuất bản
2014
Source title
Canadian Journal of Law and Society
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.1017/cls.2014.1
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
For the past four years, two instructors and approximately one hundred students have participated in a novel experiment in liberal arts legal education. Legal Inquiry, an upper-year course in the Arts & Science Program at McMaster University, seeks to demystify legal knowledge for the curious student of the world. It brings together two kindred yet previously isolated academic traditions: an open-ended inquiry approach to knowledge and a critical pluralist understanding of law. To explore the compatibility of law and inquiry, the instructors wanted students to gain confidence and skills in engaging with formal legal sources, apply critical thinking to law, and appreciate informal and everyday law. These objectives were met with surprising success given the brevity of the course. Students achieved a basic understanding of formal law and legal reasoning, generated a vocabulary of what it means to think critically about law, and began to identify the continuity of formal and informal law. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association / Association Canadienne Droit et Société 2014.
Từ khóa
critical thinking; inquiry; legal education; legal pluralism; liberal arts
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Cambridge University Press
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