Bio

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Paul is a part-time Professor at Newcastle University Law School, and works as a consultant to Osgoode Professional Development, Osgoode Hall Law School. He also holds a Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (third term of post).

Previously he was Distinguished Professor of Practice – Legal Education at Osgoode Hall Law School, Ontario, and Honorary Professor, ANU College of Law. Prior to that he was Professor of Law at the ANU College of Law, and Director of the PEARL centre (Profession, Education and Regulation in Law); He was a part-time Professor of Law, Nottingham Law School, served nine years as a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University Faculty of Law; was Professor of Legal Education at Northumbria Law School, and before that Professor of Law in the Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde where he was Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit at the GGSL, as well as Director of the two-year, JISC/UKCLE-funded project, SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment). 

He is the author, co-author and editor of seven books.  He is the co-editor of two book series, Emerging Legal Education and Digital Games, Simulations and Learning, has published widely in the fields of legal education and professional learning design, and is a strong advocate of Open in research and education.  His specialisms include interdisciplinary educational design, and the use of technology-enhanced learning at all levels of legal education.  He was appointed a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015), HEA National Teaching Fellow (2011), a Fellow of the RSA (2009), and Honorary VP of the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA, 2022).

Full CV here, updated to October 2023.

Paul is married to Nicola, and they live in Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nicola’s doctoral thesis is in the disciplines of literature and theology (Glasgow U) on the novels of Jane Gardam, and she works as a consultant counsellor trainer in private practice and in staff support for the University of Edinburgh.  They have two sons, Euan and Magnus, who both graduated in 2013 respectively from Edinburgh University (MSc, Landscape Architecture) and Clare College Cambridge (BA, Politics). Euan was a Landscape Architect with a Glasgow firm, now an Art and Technical Education teacher, mountaineer and Scottish Mountaineering Press  ‘Creative’. Magnus was an International Development Officer with the Scottish Government in Edinburgh, now a diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Interests
Cycling, largely short trips in Skye — a brief chronicle of bikes over the years would include a roadbike (Mercian), recumbent trike (Windcheetah, now sold on, alas), folders (Birdy [stolen], Brompton [customized to death], Dahon [given away to keyworkers]), and when in Canberra, a Trek Soho Deluxe. Now on a Riese & Muller Superdelite, for creaky knees & hip. And taken up motorcycling again – got my license when I was a student, back in 1976 – on a BMW F750 GS.  Music, listening mostly to Early (Renaisance, Baroque) & Traditional; playing mandolin, guitar, (traditional, and now largely played at pub sessions).  Mountaineering, used to be Scottish summer + winter & Alpine summer. Alas, injuries restrict me to lengthy dog walks with Ben, a giant and gentle collie.

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