Teaching Law of the Sea from a Critical Perspective
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Published:2023-04-18
Issue:4
Volume:38
Page:793-808
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ISSN:0927-3522
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Container-title:The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
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language:
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Short-container-title:Int. J. Mar. Coast. Law
Affiliation:
1. Law School, University of Western Australia https://dx.doi.org/110942 Crawley/Perth Australia
Abstract
Abstract
Scholarship on law of the sea has become increasingly critical in recent years, but such a critical perspective is not easily implemented in the teaching of the subject. Given that little to no scholarship has engaged with the teaching practice of law of the sea, it seems timely to consider more carefully the research-teaching nexus in this field of law, which I seek to do through this essay. Drawing on critical pedagogy, I explain how I seek to encourage dialogic learning, to de-emphasise presumably authoritative voices, and to decentre the law in my teaching of law of the sea. I also consider some of the challenges that I have encountered in my efforts to decentre the teacher and the law, which mainly relate to arguably inherent tensions within critical pedagogy and to the contemporary higher education environment.
Subject
Law,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,General Environmental Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Oceanography