Comments on: Bringing linguistic research to legal education

By: Laura Smith-Khan

Laura Smith-Khan — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:42:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Marilu! The growing emphasis on “plain English” in law education seems to be a popular way for law and language research to slip into legal education! It’s definitely a valid concern to improve how accessible legal settings are to lay people, as you say, and I can imagine even more so in locations with high linguistic diversity. Looking forward to staying in touch! 🙂

By: MARILU R. MADRUNIO

MARILU R. MADRUNIO — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 05:54:17 +0000

Thank you, Loy, for sharing this blog. I enjoyed reading the article of Laura Smith-Khan. In the case of UST, we have introduced Language and Law at the Faculty of Civil Law for those who need to complete the 18-unit English requirement by the Legal Education Board. In that course, we discuss Plain Language. The students get to see the nexus between law and language and how legalese can be avoided to make, say, a legal document more comprehensible to the ordinary lay.

Laura, I hope to connect with you.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:06:46 +0000

Thanks, LOTM, for sharing my reflection in this post. I wrote this blog post as part of my completion of the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at UTS. It was a great opportunity to reflect on and share my efforts to incorporate my interdisciplinary research into my teaching. I feel very luck to be able to reach this audience of future lawyers – key actors who have the potential to make positive change to our legal systems.

I’d really love to hear from others: how have you tried to incorporate your research into your teaching? How do you reach your target audiences to help ensure that your research translates into real-world positive change?