Abstract
As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, there are calls for the teaching of law to move with the times. There are demands that legal educators focus more on teaching skills to their students rather than merely transmit dry doctrinal points up the front of a lecture hall to hundreds of bored, passive students. After all, doctrinal rules can change and what is taught today in a lecture may be obsolete tomorrow; it is therefore better to teach students the skills they need to research and communicate the law at any point in the future rather than to give them a snapshot of the law at the present. When it comes to the teaching of contract law specifically, perhaps the twenty-first century will see lecturers focussing more on what contracts in the real world actually consist of, rather than on marginal issues that get academics excited. In short, according to certain commentators critical of more traditional methods, contract law teaching in the twenty-first century should be more skills-centred, problem-based, and technologically-savvy. What could possibly go wrong if contract law teaching was to move in such a direction?
Roberts, Marcus, Contract Law in the Twenty-First Century: What Could Go Wrong? (December 22, 2017).
First posted 2018-08-15 05:46:49
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