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
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
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