The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life: Beyond Text in Legal Education (Emerging Legal Education)

What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - especially those from the visual and performing arts - nourish the imagination needed to confront the ethical complexities of particular situations? This book asks and answers these questions, thereby introducing radically new resources for law schools and law firms committed to fighting against the moral complacency that can all too often creep into the life of the law. The chapters in this volume build on the companion volume, The Arts and the Legal Academy, also published by Ashgate, which focuses on the role of non-textual resources in legal education generally. Concentrating in particular on the moral dimension of legal education, the contributors to this volume include a wide range of theorists and leading legal educators from the UK and the US. "What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - especially those from the visual and performing arts - nourish the imagination needed to confront the ethical complexities of particular situations? This book asks and answers these questions, thereby introducing radically new resources for law schools and law firms committed to fighting against the moral complacency that can all too often creep into the life of the law. The chapters in this volume build on the companion volume, The Arts and the Legal Academy, also published by Ashgate, which focuses on the role of non-textual resources in legal education generally. Concentrating in particular on the moral dimension of legal education, the contributors in this volume include a wide range of theorists and leading legal educators from the UK and the US"--P. [4] of cover Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Space to See: Law and the Ethical Imagination -- 2 The Education of Attention and Encounter in the Legal Academy -- 3 On Encountering Life and Learning With/out the Text: Reflections on Bańkowski and Del Mar -- 4 A University is Not the World: And Nor is its Law School -- 5 'Associated Life': Democratic Professionalism and the Moral Imagination -- 6 Challenging the Primacy of Text: The Role of the Visual in Legal Education -- 7 Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: On the Use of the Visual and Performing Arts in Professional Education -- 8 Truth in Context: Sketching a (New) Historicist Legal Pedagogy -- 9 Performance, Pedagogy and Law: Theatre of the Oppressed in the Law School Classroom -- Index The space to see -law and the ethical imagination / Zenon Bankowski The education of attention and encounter in the legal academy -- Maksymilian Del Mar On encountering life and learning with/out the text---reflections on Bankowski and Del Mar -- Julian Webb A university is not the world---and nor is its law school -- Anthony Bradney "Associated life": democratic professionalism and the moral imagination -- Paul Maharg Challenging the primacy of the text---the role of the visual in legal education -- Clare Sandford-Couch Twyla Tharp goes to law school---on the use of the visual and performing arts in professional education -- Tom Mayo Truth in context---sketching a (new) historicist legal pedagogy -- Randy Gordon Performance, pedagogy and law---theatre of the oppressed in the law school classroom -- Gillian Calder. What role can resources that go beyond text play in the development of moral education in law schools and law firms? How can these resources - especially those from the visual and performing arts - nourish the imagination needed to confront the ethical complexities of particular situations? This book asks and answers these questions. This work complements The Arts and the Legal Academy, also published by Ashgate, which focuses on the role of non-textual resources in legal education generally. Concentrating in particular on the moral dimension of legal education, the contributors in this volume. This work complements 'The Arts and the Legal Academy' by the same editorial team. The aim of both books is to reinvigorate legal education, primarily in law schools but also extending to law firms, by introducing the importance and usefulness of pedagogical resources that go beyond text.