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2025 Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice

Title: The Importance of Creativity, Empathy and Imagination to Legal Education in Canada Presenter: Professor Gillian Calder Description: Over the past 40 years legal education in Canada has undergone moments of sustained critical review. Much of this scholarship is focused on a perceived divide in legal education between those who see the work of law schools as akin to trade school aimed at developing the “practice ready lawyer” and those who see the role of legal education as that of graduating students with strong critical legal and social science skills, legal advocates who could, but who might not ever practice law. This presentation works to bridge these important and intersecting questions about the role and the value of legal education, not as oppositional, but as two pillars amongst many in the work of access to justice. This paper, honouring the legacy of Marlee Kline, examines the role that embodied learning plays in the lived work of legal advocates. I will argue that the skills of 21st century legal practice, particularly with respect to equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and decolonization are best developed in classrooms that are dynamic, problem-based, experiential and that draw on arts-based practice. I aim to leave our audience rethinking the role that critical pedagogies should play in the development of humane professionals and the impact that will have on the evolution of law itself. Learn more at: https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/events...