Legal History

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/ weekStu-dentsTeachersTeaching FormDateUniversity/Faculty/DepartmentECTS
Legal History (Danish) as part of the course “Law, Society, Justice”1 session per week (3 hours) for 8 weeks (1 semester)Ca. 100Morten Kjær (coordinator) Frank Ejby Poulsen (FEP)Lectures Cases Discussions Supervision Exam: home essay + 24hour essayAutumn 2022 (4 sessions) Spring 2023 (4 sessions)SDU/Social sciences/Law15
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. 100Morten Kjær (coordinator) FEPLectures Cases Discussions Supervision Exam: Home essay + oral examinationAutumn 2022SDU/Social sciences/Law15
Legal History (Danish)3 sessions per week (2 hours) for 9 weeks (1 semester)Ca. 100 in 3 groups of 33Helle Vogt (coordinator) FEPLectures Student presentations Discussions No examSpring 2020UCPH/Law/Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies7,5
Table of courses taught in legal history

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:

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