Emerging Legal Education

Emerging Legal Education is a forum for analysing the discourse of legal education and creating innovative ways of learning the law. The series focuses on research, theory and practice within legal education, drawing attention to historical, interdisciplinary and international characteristics, and is based upon imaginative and sophisticated educational thinking. The series takes a broad view of theory and practice. Series books are written for an international audience and are sensitive to the diversity of contexts in which law is taught, learned and practised.

Series Editors

Meera Deo is Professor of Law (The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair), Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California. Prior to this she was Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego.  She has held visiting positions at Berkeley Law and UCLA School of Law. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Her nationally recognized, mixed-method empirical research is focused on institutional diversity, affirmative action, and solutions to intersectional (race/gender) bias.

Audrey Fried is Director, Faculty & Curriculum Development at Osgoode Professional Development, Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. She holds a JD from the University of Chicago, an LLM from the University of Toronto, and a master’s in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, where she is currently a doctoral candidate.

Kryss Macleod is strategic lead for education at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has designed and led large scale redesign across all levels of legal education, shaping structural and pedagogic change in response to contemporary challenges, including: regulatory change; digitalisation and technology within the legal profession; and access, diversity and equitable outcomes. Prior to full time academia, she worked in human rights and, in the context of capacity development, was introduced to critical pedagogies, which has underpinned her work and approaches to teaching and development in higher education. She is currently at work on a monograph on the subject of the posthuman law school.

Paul Maharg holds part-time posts as Professor of Law at Manchester Law School, Consultant to Osgoode Professional Development, and is Visiting Professor to the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Prior to that he held professorial posts at Osgoode Hall Law School, The Australian National University and several law schools in the UK.  He is a Fellow of the RSA (2009), was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (2011), is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015) and Honorary Vice-President of BILETA (British & Irish Law Education Technology Association - 2022).