Introduction - The teaching of criminal law: the pedagogical imperatives
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2016
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Gledhill, K.
Livings, B.
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Gledhill, K.
Livings, B.
Livings, B.
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Source details - Title: The teaching of criminal law: the pedagogical imperatives, 2016 / Gledhill, K., Livings, B. (ed./s), Ch.1, pp.14-33
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The origin of this collection of essays is a survey carried out by Kris Gledhill (with the research assistance of Blair McKeown) to identify whether criminal law courses in different parts of the common law world exhibited any significant variety. The survey was prompted by a move from legal practice in England and Wales into the teaching of criminal law in New Zealand some 25 years after studying it as an undergraduate in England and finding that the module was both very familiar – involving general principles and coverage of homicide, assaults, sexual offences, and property offences – and also that it missed many areas of the substantive criminal law that were important in practice. If it was not a coincidence that two far apart law schools taught very similar courses separated by over quarter of a century, but more systemic, obvious questions would arise: why should this be so? Was it a good thing? Another thought naturally prompted would be whether there had been any real thought given to course design in relation to the important area of criminal law.
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Copyright 2016 selection and editorial matter, K. Gledhill and B. Livings; individual chapters, the contributors