Playing Safe: Learning and Teaching in Undergraduate Law

The aim of this project was to explore the perceptions and interpretations made by law teachers of their role in facilitating learning and in responding to the wider demands of society quality assurance requirements and the professional bodies.

Specific reseach aims:

• To explore and understand the context in which law is taught in each department investigated; to include curriculum teaching methods assessment and resources.
• To explore the reasons of law teachers for identifying particular strengths/weaknesses and what this indicates about their perceptions of effective learning and teaching in law.
• To identify how UKCLE can work with the departments to support their needs and enable the achievement of more effective learning and teaching practice.

There is neither space nor reason for discussing all of the findings in this report here since they are detailed in subsequent sections. For those seeking a quick summary the following points provid a snapshot of the key findings; ideally these should be considered in conjunction with the concluding section. It was not the intention of the research to identify differences between pre and post 1992 universities but distinctive differences have emerged.