Reconciling Teaching and Research in Law: An Expatriate Law Teacher's Interdisciplinary Reflection

Journal of Legal Studies Education, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 229-254, 2015

Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2014/18

30 Pages Posted: 16 Nov 2014 Last revised: 14 May 2020

See all articles by Ming-Sung Kuo

Ming-Sung Kuo

University of Warwick - School of Law

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In this paper, I aim to discuss the long debated relationship between research and teaching by examining how this relationship plays out in the discipline of the law in the light of pedagogy and education theory. I argue that law teaching is beneficial to legal research in terms of the professional character of legal education and the practical orientation of legal knowledge. I first survey the research on the relationship between teaching and research in pedagogy and legal scholarship, respectively, and find a juxtaposition of attitudes in these two disciplines: While pedagogy and educational theory focus attention on how to improve learning and teaching through more research on teaching activities, the concern in the legal profession on legal education is that the more sophisticated legal research has become, the further law teaching may be drifting away from the training of legal professionals. With this discovery, I proceed to explore how law teaching and legal research can be bridged by virtue of the practical feature of legal knowledge when we turn attention to the “intangible nexus” between teaching and research in legal pedagogy.

Keywords: legal education, law teaching, legal research, legal pedagogy

Suggested Citation

Kuo, Ming-Sung, Reconciling Teaching and Research in Law: An Expatriate Law Teacher's Interdisciplinary Reflection (2014). Journal of Legal Studies Education, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 229-254, 2015, Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2014/18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2524495

Ming-Sung Kuo (Contact Author)

University of Warwick - School of Law ( email )

Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

HOME PAGE: http://https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/people/m-s_kuo

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
62
Abstract Views
745
Rank
632,837
PlumX Metrics