About the authors

Nick James

Nick has been teaching law at the University of Queensland since 1996. He presently teaches law & society to first year law students and business law to non-law students. He has won numerous teaching awards including the UQ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004 and a National Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2007. He is the author of Business Law (published by Wiley) and conducts research in the areas of legal education and critical legal theory. He is presently engaged in a research project investigating the teaching and assessment of legal reasoning skills.

Rachael Field

Rachael has been teaching law at QUT since 1998. Her key teaching interests are in the first year experience and dispute resolution. She was a University Teaching Fellow for 2005 focussing on the development of blended models of teaching delivery. Rachael is currently co-Program Leader (with Prof Sally Kift) of the Scholarship of Higher Education Learning in Law and Justice Program in the Faculty's Law and Justice Research Centre, and is an ongoing member of the First Year in Higher Education Conference organising committee. She was awarded an ALTC teaching citation in 2008 and in 2010 contributed significantly to the drafting of the TLOs for law. Rachael has published widely in her areas of research interest: alternative dispute resolution, women and the law, restorative justice, family law and legal education.