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What Are You, Critical Legal Education? An Absurd Symphony
Authors: Luján Pinelo, Aleida; Verdú Sanmartín, Amalia
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Law and Literature
Journal acronym: LAW LIT
Number of pages: 19
ISSN: 1535-685X
eISSN: 1541-2601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2024.2429939
Web address : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1535685X.2024.2429939
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/478070248
Abstract
This paper challenges the dominance of technology in discussions about transforming the legal profession, which often overlooks crucial debates in legal education, such as curriculum transformation and teaching methodologies. Despite ongoing reforms, mainstream legal education remains largely unchanged, with critical approaches timidly included and to the margins. We question whether current legal education fosters the critical thinking needed to challenge established doctrines. For this, we position critical legal education at the center of the debate, rethinking the idea of "thinking like a lawyer". We explore a co-writing methodology in a dramatic style inspired by the theater of the absurd.
This paper challenges the dominance of technology in discussions about transforming the legal profession, which often overlooks crucial debates in legal education, such as curriculum transformation and teaching methodologies. Despite ongoing reforms, mainstream legal education remains largely unchanged, with critical approaches timidly included and to the margins. We question whether current legal education fosters the critical thinking needed to challenge established doctrines. For this, we position critical legal education at the center of the debate, rethinking the idea of "thinking like a lawyer". We explore a co-writing methodology in a dramatic style inspired by the theater of the absurd.
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