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Hierarchies of knowledge: teaching law as a transformative experience

Ressel, J. (2014) Hierarchies of knowledge: teaching law as a transformative experience. Paper presented to: Northampton Learning and Teaching Conference 2014: Northampton 2018: Planning, Designing and Delivering Student Success, The University of Northampton, 22 May 2014. (Unpublished)

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Abstract: The paper sought to develop some techniques to enhance student experience of learning law by challenging the common perceptions of law, as a fixed set of enforceable rules, by using etymology to uncover the hidden meanings of law and its rules and allegories to draw out the sense of law.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Learning law, etymologies, justice, deconstruction
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General) > K100 Legal education
K Law > K Law (General) > K201 Jurisprudence. Philosophy and theory of law
Creators: Ressel, James
Northamptonshire and East Midlands: Education, Training and Skills
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016)
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Business & Law > Law
Faculties > Faculty of Business & Law > Law
Date: 22 May 2014
Date Type: Presentation
Event Title: Northampton Learning and Teaching Conference 2014: Northampton 2018: Planning, Designing and Delivering Student Success
Event Dates: 22 May 2014
Event Location: The University of Northampton
Event Type: Conference
Language: English
Status: Unpublished
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/6632

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