ABSTRACT

Legal education has a special problem at its core and the duty of legal educators is to alert learners to the problem and to join them in the task of overcoming it. The stationary ideas of the law include 'statute', 'stare decisis', 'standing' to appear in court, 'statements', 'estate', legal 'status' and 'constitution'. The author focuses on his undergraduate Law and Literature module to demonstrate how he use movement, within enclosed spaces and in the open air, with a view to moving hearts and motivating minds. The physical act of walking is by its nature inherently educative, and not only because it pumps a steady flow of oxygen to the brain. His Law and Literature module begins with a walk from the social science building, where the law school is psychically and psychologically located, to another campus, which just happens to be the site of the Department of Education.