Teaching Constitutional Law
This research group aims to provide a focus for scholars and teachers interested in the practice of teaching constitutional law. Traditional approaches to law teaching vary significantly along several axes in different jurisdictions and legal traditions: legal education may emphasise doctrine or theory, address graduates or undergraduates, be presented in interactive seminars or as traditional lectures, involve final (oral or written) assessment or multiple interim assessment. There are also inevitable differences in subject matter in constitutional law subjects that emphasise the local national constitution. However, much contemporary legal education is open to influences from other jurisdictions and traditions; and legal education is currently being reconfigured in many jurisdictions. This research group will facilitate interchange and dialogue among scholars and teachers in relation to constitutional law subjects. It will enable:
- exchange of information about subject design, case studies, teaching practice and assessment in constitutional law subjects;
- exploration of the possibility of collaborative teaching or developing shared teaching materials, particularly in introductions to constitutionalism, conceptual subjects and/or Comparative Constitutional Law; and
- consideration of process for interchanges between doctoral students working in comparative constitutional law who would benefit from dialogue with counterparts in other jurisdictions.
Convenor:
Associate Professor Carolyn Evans
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, Australia
c.evans@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Simon Evans
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, Australia
s.evans@unimelb.edu.au
