Using legal policy and law reform as assessment

Rachel Dunn; Richard Glancey

doi:10.22459/cp01.2019.05

Using legal policy and law reform as assessment

Rachel Dunn, Richard Glancey

Northumbria Law School

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This chapter discusses an innovative way of assessing students in a Civil Liberties module. Richard Glancey has used his experience of coordinating various student policy projects and the Student Law Think Tank, a policy clinic at Northumbria University, to develop his assessment methods.

Policy projects are a great way to get students more actively involved in the law and to equip them with a wide range of skills, explored in this chapter. Richard has taken this clinical approach and developed it into a successful group assessment on his module. We begin by discussing the Student Law Think Tank at Northumbria...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1: England
Editors	Alison Bone, Paul Maharg
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australian National University Press
Chapter	5
Pages	139-163
ISBN (Electronic)	9781760463014
ISBN (Print)	9781760463007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22459/cp01.2019.05
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2019

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Name	Assessment in Legal Education
Publisher	Australian National University Press

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Using legal policy and law reform as assessment. / Dunn, Rachel; Glancey, Richard.
Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law: Volume 1: England. ed. / Alison Bone; Paul Maharg. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2019. p. 139-163 (Assessment in Legal Education).

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