What is it about?
This article argues that there is a need for more transdisciplinary and decolonial approaches to knowledge production in law. These approaches need to go beyond a focus on diversity which only seeks ways for marginal voices and experiences to be absorbed into the hierarchies of education. We need to find new ways of undoing the hierarchies.
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Why is it important?
Diversity measures, without more, are insufficient to disrupt the reproduction of our unequal world and bring forth ‘otherwise worlds’. However, our engagement with decolonial thought must involve a fundamental rethinking of the purposes of legal education and how reconstructing legal epistemologies may result in flourishing futures for all.
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I wrote an article as part of a special issue that reflects on the state of the traditional law school and legal education. My purpose was to think through the role of law schools in local and global society, especially in teaching the world to our students.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Should We Rethink the Purposes of the Law School? A Case for Decolonial Thought in Legal Pedagogy, Amicus Curiae, June 2021, School of Advanced Study,
DOI: 10.14296/ac.v2i3.5309.
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