Public Law in the Classroom Workshop 2025

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Call for Papers

The eleventh annual Public Law in the Classroom workshop will be held at UNSW Sydney and online on Thursday, 6 February 2025. Please register here

The workshop is organised by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW, the Public Law and Policy Research Unit at the University of Adelaide, the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University and the School of Law at Western Sydney University. The past ten workshops have been a great success, each attracting public law teachers from across the country and internationally.

The first panel session will focus on Building Micro-Skills, and will explore how teachers have helped their students to develop the ‘micro-skills’ needed to study law, such as how to take notes, how to read for class, how to understand an assessment task, etc. The second panel session will focus on Design and Visualisation to Increase Engagement and will explore how visualisation and the design of materials can bring public law to life, encourage pre-class preparation and help students in organising their knowledge. The third panel session will focus on Authentic Assessment and will explore both assessment design, as well as the provision of feedback – particularly in the context of authentic assessment. 

We are currently calling for abstracts from public law teachers, and particularly early career public law teachers. The panels will be made up of a series of short presentations between 5-7 minutes, followed by a moderated plenary discussion. The Call for Papers can be found here, and abstracts are requested by Friday 22 November 2024

This page will be updated with exact timings and speakers closer to the workshop.

We hope to see many of you in Sydney!