ABSTRACT
Legal education is not just law learned in universities but also in further education, schools, solicitors’ ofces, Citizens’ Advice Bureaux, clinics, ofces, the Bar and the Court. Although the book deals predominantly with Higher Education (HE), those of us in HE institutions can learn profoundly from considering the research that has been carried out on learning in other institutions, in workplaces and in other disciplines, including education itself, and the fundamental questions that are addressed there.2 What is it that we do when we say we teach or study law? How does it differ from other disciplines? What effect are ever-larger numbers of undergraduate students, dwindling resources and burgeoning masters programmes having on the learning experience? What relationship should the undergraduate degree bear to postgraduate education and professional practice? How can the relationship of education to legal education be characterised? What is the role of technology in legal education? These questions are complex and often recursive, bearing one on another.
