ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the view that incorporating or referencing aspects of visual culture in legal education may encourage students to reflect critically upon legal and moral issues. It considers some of the reasons why legal education generally does not make use of images and also offers possible reasons why it should. The chapter explains some alternative approaches to a text-only experience for students, looking at the role film and television may have to play in legal education, and exploring concepts of legal visualization and the use of digital games in learning. Suggestions to expand the horizons of legal education are legion, in the face of what many regard as an increasingly narrow technical, legal practice emphasis in legal education. The Beyond Text in Legal Education project sought to examine how the visual and movement arts could help in promoting the ethical imagination and creativity needed when law and lawyers encounter certain situations.
