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Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 2, am, session 1
Second day of the conference, and we’re focusing first on technology and innovations in legal education, followed after the break by a session on experiential learning and innovation in professional education. For reference, full conference programme here. We start with the third keynote, this time from Daniel Rodriguez from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, on…
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Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 1, pm
First session after lunch is a continuation of the theme of clinic. First up, Kathleen Laverty, Director of Strathclyde Law Clinic, Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow. They don’t have an aim to educate students – not that that isn’t important, but social justice is the first aim and education flows from that. So the Social Justice…
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Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 1, am
I’m at this conference at the invitation of Wilson Chow and the conference committee. It’s one of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of HKU’s Faculty of Law. It’s great to be back in HK and meet colleagues and friends in the Faculty, and talk over projects. More of that…
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CLEO Conference: Games, Stories and Simulations
Am here in London South Bank University Law at the invitation of Emily Allbon, Dawn Watkins and Andy Unger, who are convening this one-day event. CLEO is the Clinical Legal Education Organisation, but as the title suggests, the speakers are moving well beyond the usual framework of clinic. There will be Belbin role games and design…
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Assessment in Legal Education – new book series
Today ANU Press has published Assessment in Legal Education. Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law. Vol 1: England. It’s the first volume in a series, this volume edited by Alison Bone and myself. The series editors are Craig Collins and Vivien Holmes (ANU College of Law); I’m consultant editor. ANU Press is an…
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Pressing problems MLR seminar, final thoughts
The seminar organisers based the conference on a book of essays edited by Peter Birks entitled Pressing Problems in the Law. Vol 2. What are Law Schools For? and published by OUP in 1996 (hereafter, ‘Birks’). I remember buying it around 1997 or 1998, second-hand, from Voltaire & Rousseau, in Glasgow. Five years out from…
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Final sessions
Third plenary session was my own: ‘”Complicitous and contestatory”: the hermeneutics of legal education’. Slides up at the usual places – Slideshare and the Slides tab above. The final session was a panel session where Margaret, Steven and I fielded questions from the audience about legal education’s future, technology, including which questions will remain for…
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Pressing Problems, second parallel session
Caroline Gibby first, on ‘SQEixt: where do we go from here? The careful roar from the North’. Caroline asked what’s good, what’s bad about the SQE. There is a lot of confusion about SQE 1. There’s inconsistency regarding the Bar’s approach to it. Management often doesn’t understand the issues that are often quite complex; and…
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Pressing problems, parallel paper session 1
First up, Geoffrey Samuels on ‘What can law schools offer other disciplines?’ He gave an interesting summary of what since the glossators and commentators law offered to other disciplines in the early universities. Such a pleasure to hear the achievements of early jurists praised in this way – I wrote on this in Transforming Legal…
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Revisiting ‘Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School for?’ 20 years on.
Am back in Northumbria Law School for this event organised by Northumbria School of Law and Nottingham Law School, funded by the Modern Law Review. Was late because I thought I knew my way round Newcastle – so like Glasgow in so many ways – but stopped to re-orient (sea is on the wrong side,…
