ABSTRACT
Can a law school build a set of interlinked courses in refugee and migration law with the aim to develop students’ legal knowledge, lawyering and related skills, and their ethical and professional values? If so, what might this look like and what teaching and assessing methods might be chosen? This chapter provides an overview of one such development specializing in the field of migration and refugee law offered to students at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague: the Migration Law Programme.
The chapter describes the reasons why the programme was created and its roots in a traditional and typical teaching regime of a post-socialist country. It then presents four main approaches to teaching and learning on which the course is based: ‘classroom-based learning’, ‘learning by doing’, ‘learning by playing’ and ‘learning through research’. It examines the strengths of the methods that are used, e.g. the flipped classroom, the use of externships and internships as well as simulation. Readers can also find out how this set of courses was built and why the Faculty opted to build a set of interlinked courses instead of developing a legal clinic.
