This work complements 'The Arts and the Legal Academy' by the same editorial team. The aim of both books is to reinvigorate legal education, primarily in law schools but also extending to law firms, by introducing the importance and usefulness of pedagogical resources that go beyond text.

Contents: Introduction, Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar; The space to see: law and the ethical imagination, Zenon Bankowski; The education of attention and encounter in the legal academy, Maksymilian Del Mar; On encountering life and learning with/out the text: reflections on Bankowski and Del Mar, Julian Webb; A university is not the world: and nor is its law school, Anthony Bradney; ’Associated life’: democratic professionalism and the moral imagination, Paul Maharg; Challenging the primacy of the text: the role of the visual in legal education, Clare Sandford-Couch; Twyla Tharp goes to law school: on the use of the visual and performing arts in professional education, Thomas Wm. Mayo; Truth in context: sketching a (new) historicist legal pedagogy, Randy Gordon; Performance, pedagogy and law: theatre of the oppressed in the law school classroom, Gillian Calder; Index.

’’Legal Education scholarship has grown and developed enormously in recent decades, and this text is a significant contribution to this continued development.’ SCOLAG Legal Journal The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life examines innovative ways to incorporate non-textual and non-legal materials such as visual art, literature, film, performing arts, and simulations into law school curricula. For those interested in how to deepen moral perception, this edited collection provides a wealth of new ideas and theoretical insights.’ Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School, USA ’Together with its companion volume The Arts and the Legal Academy, this collection is essential reading for anyone concerned about legal education in these times when quantifiable student satisfaction often trumps the quality of teaching. Bankowski and his colleagues argue forcefully that there need not be a contradiction between the two: quality legal education conducted with imagination can be a deeply satisfying experience.’ Panu Minkkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland