The Law School Degree Show: law, materiality, decolonization and authentic assessment

Abstract

ABSTRACT For the final year Degree Show at Westminster Law School, all final year students are required to produce a material artefact that reflects their understanding of law, justice, and their political and social responsibility as law students. In order to illustrate the process and use of this interdisciplinary assessment approach, we describe how we came about this way of thinking about assessment, what the practical challenges are, and how it all fits into a broader effort to bring about authentic real-life assessments. We offer some indication of the marking criteria and learning outcomes, and conclude by arguing that this material, interdisciplinary, decolonial and creative way of expressing the law is of pivotal importance to how we should be thinking of teaching the law, in the context of authentic assessments.