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  • The European Journal of Legal Education
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

    European and international cooperation and collaboration is integral to our strong and longstanding community of higher education. The European Journal of Legal Education will provide a forum for this community of knowledge and learning. The Journal is committed to generating debate and publishing outstanding contributions on and of interest to legal education in Europe, bringing together and promoting cooperation between scholars globally. In furtherance of this mission, the European Journal of Legal Education encourages reflection on existing and emerging analyses of legal education and works through rigorous peer review and selection processes.

  • The European Journal of Legal Education
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)

    In Spring 2020 our ‘normal’ changed dramatically, on a really large scale. We, like colleagues across the globe, have been moving through the crafting of this EJLE second issue under extremely unusual circumstances, and in the wider context the crisis has created challenges for and within the higher education community. Education has not shut down during the pandemic, instead it has shifted from physical spaces to online and remote learning - and this is something the education industry was not prepared for. It is no surprise that this issue is influenced by these experiences over the last twelve months, and some of the analyses and reflections were prompted by this crisis. It is difficult to predict the ramifications for higher education and the longer term implications  of the challenges we faced over the last months. However, some resulting challenges, the opportunities and the broadening of our perspectives are addressed in this second issue.

  • The European Journal of Legal Education
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022)

    It is a genuine pleasure to introduce this third issue of the European Journal of Legal Education. As I reflect on this past year since our second issue and wonder how we can make legal education work best, two things come to mind. Firstly, the pandemic will change the way we educate. The crisis has been painful for all, staff and students alike, but from it changes will emerge and these will help improve the way we teach and the way we learn. Secondly, the pandemic forced an uptake in technology which, too, will benefit future lawyers. In summary, we have as a result enormous opportunities, experience and good practice for changing the way we teach, learn and work. There is potential for critical conversations in legal education, conversations that can help reconfigure the legal landscape.

    Our current issue includes contributions that focus on exactly those critical conversations: analysing the pandemic as a disruptor, albeit one that provides us with inspiration for improvement.

  • The European Journal of Legal Education
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023)

    This issue finds itself in the global context of a year of political, economic and climate crisis, as well as a deepening humanitarian crisis. As a positive, we seem to have turned a corner following the first global pandemic of the century. However, Higher Education faces pressing challenges such as student wellbeing, barriers to research collaboration, challenges to equal opportunities, competition and financial squeeze.

    Our fourth issue is set in this context and is inspired by the ELFA mission and themes. It includes interdisciplinary and multi-level research on legal education, offers innovative and renewed approaches to delivering legal education, inspires the consideration and calibration of mental wellbeing and emotions. It can broadly be distributed into three major themes: wellbeing, transformation – deepening/improving of legal education, achieving equality (gender).

  • The European Journal of Legal Education
    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024)

    The overall theme of this issue is the value of learning experiences, through learning design, co-creation of student support, reflective practice, Clinical Legal Education, technology enhanced learning and virtual learning. Albert Einstein’s quote: “Learning is an experience – everything else is just information” seems a fitting introduction to this issue.