BA-level
I have taught Danish legal history in Danish to LLB students at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark:
Title | Classes/ week | Stu-dents | Teachers | Teaching Form | Date | University/Faculty/Department | ECTS |
Legal History (Danish) as part of the course “Law, Society, Justice” | 1 session per week (3 hours) for 8 weeks (1 semester) | Ca. 100 | Morten Kjær (coordinator) Frank Ejby Poulsen (FEP) | Lectures Cases Discussions Supervision Exam: home essay + 24hour essay | Autumn 2022 (4 sessions) Spring 2023 (4 sessions) | SDU/Social sciences/Law | 15 |
Legal History (Danish) as part of the course “Legal history, Legal sociology, Legal philosophy” | 1 session per week (3 hours) for 8 weeks (1 semester) | Ca. 100 | Morten Kjær (coordinator) FEP | Lectures Cases Discussions Supervision Exam: Home essay + oral examination | Autumn 2022 | SDU/Social sciences/Law | 15 |
Legal History (Danish) | 3 sessions per week (2 hours) for 9 weeks (1 semester) | Ca. 100 in 3 groups of 33 | Helle Vogt (coordinator) FEP | Lectures Student presentations Discussions No exam | Spring 2020 | UCPH/Law/Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies | 7,5 |
One of the pedagogical tools I have developed is a timeline over the main periods studied and their distinctive legal systems. It helped students get a sense of when legal sources we analysed took place:

Students had to analyse historical legal sources, and when I had too many students to do it in class with groups, I made them do it on a padlet with my supervision and comments. It looked like this: