Aspirations for cross-disciplinary teaching explored through the model of ‘Law and History’ study: Possibilities and parameters for partnerships with SBS (and beyond?)
Event details
The ‘Law and History’ module offered to undergraduate finalist York Law School students is popular, notwithstanding lacking many tropes of popularity attached to law school study. Explaining how the module encourages students to ask whether laws today are fit for purpose for a complex and diverse society, the paper explores the potential for a ‘Law and History’ model to be adapted for Management and Business School (M&B) teaching. The presentation introduces core ideas, and looks to explore with SBS colleagues how M&B teaching might make use of these ideas, in practical classroom learning and how these applications can be understood more theoretically.
About the speaker
Dr Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is a Reader in Law at York Law School, University of York, UK. After reading Law at Cardiff Law School she commenced studies in Modern British History gaining a MA (History) and PhD (History) before taking up a number of posts in UK Law Schools. Sarah’s 2014 monograph The Origins of Modern Financial Crime: Historical foundations and current problems in Britain was a multi-disciplinary analysis of the legal and societal challenges presented by financial crime, with this also looking to highlight possibilities for cross-disciplinary analysis arising from financial crime’s inherently interdisciplinary qualities. This direction has also encouraged Sarah to explore the importance of historical approaches for ‘presentist’ focused social science disciplines like Law, and to develop a theoretical framework for long-timeframe analysis in this setting, and her writing in this space has thought to disseminate this development in ways which encourages historical analysis across scholarly pursuit and learning and pedagogy.