Day: 11 July 2012

  • Question Time session

    Chaired by Joshua Rozenberg – Diane Burleigh, Ashley Chambers, Peter Crisp CE BPP, Tony King, Taryn Lee QC, Julian Webb, Wes Pue on panel.  Vigorous questioning by Joshua in true Question Time fashion.  First question on employers and students: a variety of answers.  Wes gave the situation in Canada, and what he wanted to see…

  • Parallel session 2

    I attended Prof Stuart Bell (York U) and Dr Rachel Field, (Queensland U of Technology) on regulation and innovation at the academic stage. Stuart began by making the point that there was little on research on effectiveness of professional regulation in the undergraduate degree, one way or the other.  HE regulation has more of an…

  • Parallel session 1

    I attended Alex Roy (LSB), and Prof Rob Wilson (Warwick U, LETR consultant) on Identifying and Developing the Future Workforce.  Alex kicked off: large number of firms, mostly small (2-4 partners — over 20% of the workforce re solicitors, much larger proportion of law firms in E+W), few large firms.  Turnover looks like the internet…

  • LETR Symposium, day 2, keynote 2

    Second keynote, Wes Pue, from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.  Legal historian primarily, but with a huge knowledge and interest in legal education.  He described himself as raised in a British dominion, proud of his Canadian heritage, an outsider/insider, which defined his later research and views.  Studied at Oxford, and noted the variety…