Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity

<p>In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert – the authority of the law the university their own authority as teachers perhaps? Are law students ripe for subversion agents of or impediments to subversion? Do they learn to ask critical questions? Responding to the provocation in the classic book Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Postman and Weingartner the idea that teaching could or even should be subversive still holds true today and its premise is particularly relevant in the context of legal education. We therefore draw on this classic book to discuss in the present volume the consideration of research into legal education as lifetime learning as creating meaning as transformative and as developing world-changing thinking within the legal context. The volume offers research into classroom experiences and theoretical and historical interrogations of what it means to teach law subversively. Primarily aimed at legal educators and doctoral students in law planning careers as academics its insights speak directly to tensions in higher education more broadly.</p>