The Legal Education and Training Review submitted its findings five years ago now – seems more like 15 years to be honest, so much has happened in the interim. To mark the occasion, Jessica Guth of Leeds Law School at Leeds Beckett University has organised the above conference, taking place tomorrow. LETR’s co-authors Julian Webb, Jane Ching, Avrom Sherr and I have been invited to appear on a panel that opens the conference (and as usual I’ll be liveblogging what I can of the parallel papers). You can access our slideset at the Slides tab above, or at Slideshare.
Also available is a pdf list of some of the LETR-related academic activities (presentations, publications, reports and blog posts) we created out of LETR since 2013. I was surprised to see how varied they were, and also how global, too. Not just in the sense that the sites of presentations and publications were international, but in the sense that regulators from a range of jurisdictions and for a variety of reasons were interested in what we had said, and in some cases commissioned us to write reports on the basis of having read LETR. In our different ways we’re also taking forward adaptations of LETR research and theory into the new regulatory environments and jurisdictions we each find ourselves in.
Like every legal educational report LETR is a snapshot in time. The better reports survive and parts of them have a continuing life in the effects they have on the future of legal educational theory and practice. It seems that LETR is having some sort of of international effect, and we’ll summarise that in our panel presentation – but what about England & Wales? I’m looking forward to the conference tomorrow to help me think about what LETR still has to offer E+W, and in what directions, if any, we might want to take the report’s approaches and ideas, given everything that has happened since it was published.