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Embracing discomfort : from textbook to scriptbook in legal education
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EUI; LAW; Working Paper; 2025/07
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NOUWEN, Sarah Maria Heiltjen, WERNER, Wouter G., Embracing discomfort : from textbook to scriptbook in legal education, EUI, LAW, Working Paper, 2025/07 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92856
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Textbooks provide comfort. But does comfort provide the most fertile ground for learning? In this paper, we propose an alternative to the international legal textbook: a scriptbook to be used for reenactments. Where textbooks in international criminal law seek closure, scriptbooks written for re-enactment are meant to open up. Where textbooks provide order and structure, scriptbooks cherish the contingent and the undecided. Where textbooks engender feelings of comfort, re-enactments of scripts in a scriptbook can be discomforting. But it is precisely this discomfort that makes the re-enactment a powerful pedagogical tool.