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Empirical legal research teaching in Australia: Building an empirical revolution

Alysia Blackham

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There is a growing need for empirical legal research, and for lawyers and judges who are empirically literate. In this article, I consider the role legal education can and should play in achieving this empirical literacy, to enable law students and staff to be both skilled consumers and producers of empirical legal research. Drawing on a case study of initiatives at Melbourne Law School, I consider how empirical legal research could be embedded into law teaching, to better support the future of empirical legal scholarship.

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There is a growing need for empirical legal research, and for lawyers and judges who are empirically literate. In this article, I consider the role legal education can and should play in achieving this empirical literacy, to enable law students and staff to be both skilled consumers and producers of empirical legal research. Drawing on a case study of initiatives at Melbourne Law School, I consider how empirical legal research could be embedded into law teaching, to better support the future of empirical legal scholarship.

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There is a growing need for empirical legal research, and for lawyers and judges who are empirically literate. In this article, I consider the role legal education can and should play in achieving this empirical literacy, to enable law students and staff to be both skilled consumers and producers of empirical legal research. Drawing on a case study of initiatives at Melbourne Law School, I consider how empirical legal research could be embedded into law teaching, to better support the future of empirical legal scholarship.

Key concepts: Empirical research, Empirical legal studies, Legal research, Scholarship, Legal education, Literacy, Project commissioning, Political science

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