Serious Play: Creativity and the Transsystemic Classroom

in Yaëll Emerich & Marie-Andrée Plante, Eds, Repenser Les Paradigmes: Approches Transsystémiques Du Droit (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2018)

Posted: 26 Mar 2021

See all articles by Shauna Van Praagh

Shauna Van Praagh

McGill University - Faculty of Law

Date Written: 2018

Abstract

This paper suggests that the McGill programme of legal education invites imagination in an insistent and unique way. The explicit escape from restraints (perceived and real) of one legal tradition, embodied in the content and pedagogy of that programme, both allows for and demands innovative avenues of questioning, exploration and response. That is, transsystemic sensibility is intertwined with imagination not only on a final exam, but throughout an entire course or program of legal education. As the author attempts to illustrate, teaching and learning the private law of civil wrongs in a transsystemic mode facilitates and nourishes resourceful, ingenious and thoughtful inquiry.

Keywords: legal education, play, transsystemic approach

JEL Classification: K00

Suggested Citation

Van Praagh, Shauna, Serious Play: Creativity and the Transsystemic Classroom (2018). in Yaëll Emerich & Marie-Andrée Plante, Eds, Repenser Les Paradigmes: Approches Transsystémiques Du Droit (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2018), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3500178

Shauna Van Praagh (Contact Author)

McGill University - Faculty of Law ( email )

3644 Peel Street
Montreal H3A 1W9, Quebec H3A 1W9
Canada

Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?

Paper statistics

Abstract Views
148
PlumX Metrics