Book Series

  1. Maharg, P., Maughan, C., Mertz, E., eds (2011-2014)  Emerging Legal Education.  Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.  1-3 volumes to be commissioned & published per annum for three years.
  2. de Freitas, S., Maharg, P., eds (2011-2015) Digital Games and Learning.  Routledge, London.  Ten volumes to be commissioned over five years.

Books

  1. Maharg, P. (2007). Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-First Century, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.  Endorsements here.
  2. de Freitas, S., Maharg, P., eds, (2011). Digital Games and Learning, Continuum Publishing, London.  Endorsements here.
  3. Maharg, P., Maughan, C., eds, (2011). Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.  Endorsements here.
  4. Bankowski, Z., Maharg, P. del Mar, M., eds, (October 2012, forthcoming) The Arts and the Legal Academy. Beyond Text in Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.

Refereed book chapters and journal publications

Book Chapters (since 2000)

  1. Maharg, P., (2000), “Context cues cognition”: writing, rhetoric and legal argumentation, in Learning to Argue in Higher Education, eds Richard Andrews & Sally Mitchell, Heinemann/Boynton Cook, New York
  2. Maharg, P. (2001) Plans for action, time for reflection: an experiment with time, action and personal development’, in Personal Development Planning in Practice: A Series of Case Studies, edited by Juwah, C., et al, CLASS, Aberdeen.
  3. Maharg, P. (2001).  Imagined communities, imaginary conversations: failure and the construction of legal identities, in The State of Scots Law: law and Government after the Devolution Settlement, ed Lindsay Farmer, Scott Veitch.  Butterworths, London, 135-150.
  4. Maharg, P., Paliwala, A. (2002) ‘Negotiating the Learning Process with Electronic Resources’, in Effective Learning and Teaching in Law, edited Burridge, R. et al., London, Kogan Page, 81-104
  5. Maharg, P. (2004) Virtual communities on the web: transactional learning and teaching, in Aan het werk met ICT in het academisch onderwijs, edited by Anton Vedder, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, 75-93
  6. Barton, K., Maharg, P. (2006) Simulations in the wild: interdisciplinary research, design and implementation, in Games and Simulations in Online Learning, edited by Aldrich, C., Gibson, D., Prensky, M., Part 2, chapter 6, 170-218, Idea Group Ltd, 115-148 (16,000 words)
  7. Maharg, P. (2006) Authenticity and professionalism: transactional learning in virtual communities, in Innovating E-Learning Practice, The Proceedings of Theme 3 of the JISC Online Conference, Innovating E-Learning 2006, ed by Minshull, G., Mole, J., chapter 6, 33-42.  Invited conference paper and chapter, peer-reviewed.  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/webook_theme3_a4.pdf
  8. Maharg, P. (2007) Epilogue: Future directions for gaming and simulation, in Mayer, I., Stegers-Jäger, K., Bekebrede, G., eds, (2007) Spelend Leren in Virtuele Werelden.  Bouwstenen voor Online Gaming in het Hoger Onderwijs, Wolters-Hoordhoff, Groningen/Houten, pp.235-37 (invited epilogue)
  9. Maharg, P. (2007) SIMPLE: Simulation Learning and Professional Practice, in Mayer, I. & Mastik, H., eds. Organizing and Learning through Gaming and Simulation. Proceedings of ISAGA 2007, (4,379 words)
  10. Gould, H., Hughes, M., Maharg, P., Nicol, E. (2009) The narrative event diagram (NED): a tool for designing professional simulations, in Gibson, D. (ed) Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, IGI Global Books, Hershey, PA (7,815 words).
  11. Maharg, P. (2009) Simulation, technology and professionalism, in New Currents in Law School Education: The Use of Simulation and Web-Based Approaches, Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 15-42 (Japanese)
  12. Maharg, P., Nicol, E. (2009) Cyberdam and SIMPLE: a study in divergent developments and convergent aims, in Learning in a Virtual World: Reflections on the Cyberdam Research and Development Project, eds Warmelink, H, Mayer, I., Wolf Publishers, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  13. de Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (2011) Digital games and learning: modelling learning experiences in the digital age, in de Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (eds) Digital Games and Learning, Continuum Press (9,826 words)
  14. de Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (2011) Introduction. de Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (eds) Digital Games and Learning, Continuum Press.
  15. Maharg, P. (2011). Space, absence, silence: the intimate dimensions of legal learning, in Affect and Legal Education: The Impact of Emotion on Learning and Teaching the Law, Ashgate Publishing, eds Maharg, P., Maughan, C., 283-305.
  16. Maharg, P., Maughan, C. (2011) Introduction.  Affect and Legal Education: The Impact of Emotion on Learning and Teaching the Law, Ashgate Publishing, eds Maharg, P., Maughan, C., 1-8.
  17. Maharg, P. (2012) The identity of Scots law: redeeming the past, in Scottish Life and Society.  A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology.  Law, ed. Mark Mulhern.  Birlinn Press & The European Ethnological Research Centre, Edinburgh (6,700 words)
  18. Maharg, P. (2012).  Simulation: a pedagogy emerging from the shadows, in Educating the Digital Lawyer, edited by O. Goodenough and M. Lauritsen.  New Providence, NJ and San Francisco, CA, LexisNexis.  Available at: http://www.lexisnexis.com/ebooks/documents/digitallawyer.epub
  19. Maharg, P. (2012).  Assessing legal professionalism in simulations: the case of SIMPLE, in Cerillo, A., Delgado, A.M., eds, La Innovacion en La Docencia del Derecho a Traves del USO de las TIC.  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona.
  20. Barton, K., Garvey, J.B., Maharg, P. (2012, in press).  ‘You are here’: learning law, practice and professionalism in the Academy.  In Bankowski, Z., Maharg, P. del Mar, M., editors The Arts and the Legal Academy.  Beyond Text in Legal Education, vol 1. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
  21. Maharg, P. (2012, forthcoming).  ’Associated life’: democratic professionalism and the moral imagination.  In Bankowski, Z., del Mar, M., editors, The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life.  Beyond Text in legal Education, vol 2. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot.
  22. Maharg, P. (forthcoming), Beatific moral theory and legal learning. In [Title unknown as yet], ed. Webb, J.  Sense Publishers, Netherlands.

 

Refereed Journal Volumes Edited (since 2000)

  1. Maharg, P. (2001) International Review of Law Computers & Technology, As We May Learn…  Web-based Learning, Teaching & Assessment in Law, 15, 3, nine items, 261-379
  2. Maharg, P. (2003) International Review of Law Computers & Technology, BILETA Edition, 17, 1, ten items, pp.1-115
  3. Maharg, P., Muntjewerff, A.J. (2005) The Law Teacher, ‘Special Edition on ICT’, 39, 1, iii-viii, eight items

 

Refereed Journal Articles, 1995-present

  1. Maharg, P. (1995). Lorimer, Inglis and R.L.S.: law and the kailyard lockup, The Juridical Review, 3, 280-91
  2. Maharg, P. (1996). Contracts: an introduction to the skills of legal writing and analysis, Journal of Information, Law and Technology, 1, 1, http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/cal/1maharg/default.htm
  3. Maharg, P. (1996). (Re)-telling stories: narrative theory and the practice of client counselling, The Law Teacher, 30, 3, 295-314
  4. Barton, K., Duncan, P., McKellar, P., & Maharg, P. (2000). The Paisley pattern: IT                    and legal practice in Scotland, Scots Law & Practice Quarterly, 5, 3, 217-239
  5. Maharg, P., (1999). The culture of Mnemosyne: open book assessment and the theory and practice of legal education’ International Journal of the Legal Profession, 6, 2, 219-39.
  6. Maharg, P. (2000). ‘Rogers, constructivism and the jurisprudence of legal education’, International Journal of the Legal Profession, 7, 3, 198-203
  7. Maharg, P., (2000). Law, learning, technology: reiving ower the Borders’, International Review of Law, Computers, Technology, 14, 2, 155-170
  8. Barton, K., McKellar, P., Maharg, P., (2000). Situated learning and the management of learning: a case study, The Law Teacher 34, 2, 141-163
  9. Maharg, P. (2001). Negotiating the web: legal skills learning in a virtual community, International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 15, 3, special edition, ‘Web-based Teaching, Learning & Assessment in Law’, edited Maharg, P., 345-361
  10. Maharg, P. (2001). Introduction: as we may learn…, International Review of Law Computers & Technology, 2001, 15, 3, special edition, ‘Web-based Teaching, Learning & Assessment in Law’, edited Maharg, P., 261-65
  11. Maharg, P., Muntjewerff, A. (2002). Through a screen, darkly: electronic legal education in Europe’, The Law Teacher, ‘Legal Education in Europe’, 36, 3, 2002, 307-332
  12. Maharg, P. (2003). ‘Introduction’ Law, Computers & Technology, Special Issue: BILETA Edition, edited Maharg, P., 17, 1, 3-7
  13. Maharg, P. (2004). Professional legal education in Scotland, Georgia University State Law Review, Summer, 20, 947- 76
  14. Maharg, P., Muntjewerff, A.J. (2005). Editorial: Legal Education and Information Communications Technology (ICT), The Law Teacher, ‘Special Edition on ICT’, 39, 1, iii-viii
  15. McKellar, P., Maharg, P. (2005). Virtual learning environments: the alternative to the box under the bed, The Law Teacher, ‘Special Edition on ICT’, 39, 1, 43-56
  16. Barton, K., Cunningham, Jones, C.G., Maharg, P. (2006). Valuing what clients think: standardized clients and the assessment of communicative competence. Clinical Law Review, 13,1, 1-65 (28,239 words)
  17. Maharg, P. (2006). On the edge: imagining ICT and professional legal learning, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, special issue on Legal Education, edited by Spence, M. (11,542 words)
  18. Maharg, P., Owen, M. (2007). Simulations, learning and the metaverse: changing cultures in legal education, Journal of Information, Law, Technology. Special Issue on law, education, technology, 1, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/2007_1/maharg_owen (10,382 words)
  19. Duncan, N., Maharg, P. (2007). Black box, Pandora’s box or virtual toolbox?  An experiment in a journal’s transparent peer review on the web, International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 21, 2, 109-28 (10,606 words).
  20. Barton, K., McKellar, P., Maharg, P. (2007). Authentic fictions: simulation, professionalism and legal learning, Clinical Law Review, 14, 1, 143-93 (21,074 words)
  21. Agapiou, A., Maharg, P., Nicol, E. (2010).  Construction and constructivism: learning contract management and administration via simulated transactions.  Centre for Education in the Built Environment Transactions Journal, 7, 2, 37-54 [ISSN:1745-0322].
  22. Maharg, P. (2011). Sea-change. International Journal of the Legal Profession. Special issue: Symposium in Honour of William Twining, 18, 1-2, 139-64.
  23. Barton, K., McKellar, P., Maharg, P (2011, not yet submitted). Sim learning: meta-review of 40 years of research and development in legal education, Simulation and Gaming Review.

Professional reports and articles

  1. Maharg, P., et al, (1997). The Diploma in Trading Standards: A Curriculum Review (130pp).
  2. Maharg, P. (2001). Professional Competence Course (100pp).
  3. Maharg, P. (2002). ‘Transactional Learning: Web-based Simulations and Legal Education’, Legal Information Management, 2, 4, 8-16.  Invited article in BIALL conference special issue
  4. Maharg, P. (2002). ‘IT’s Progress: The Gradual Revolution’, The Legal Executive, February 2002, 8-13.  Invited article on special issue on legal education
  5. Maharg, P. (2002-3). Reports to The Law Society of Scotland on Test of Professional Competence Open-Book Pilot Examinations, Phase 1 and Phase 2
  6. Two reports compiled for the Law Society of Scotland on the function and results of the TPC open-book examinations.  These reports have changed the direction of LSS strategy regarding assessment of professional knowledge and competence.
  7. Anderson, S., Maharg, P., (2003). Minority and Social Diversity in Legal Education
  8. Maharg, P. (2003). Curriculum Models for the Diploma in Legal Practice (44pp)
  9. Maharg, P. (2004). Firm foundations, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 49, 8, 15-18
  10. Maharg, P. (2004). Mind the gaps, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 49, 9, 47
  11. Maharg, P. (2004). Virtual firms: transactional learning on the web, The Online Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, http://journalonline.co.uk/article.aspx?id=1001154
  12. McKellar, P., Maharg, P. (2004). Talk about talk: are discussion forums worth the effort? Vocational Teachers’ Forum, Learning in Law Initiative Conference, University of Warwick, http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/resources/vtf/maharg.html.
  13. Maharg, P., (2006). SIMPLE – Simulations for Professional Legal Learning, D-Lib Invited article, 2,000 words
  14. Maharg, P., (2005). Transactional learning environments and professional legal education in Scotland, Bar Examiner, The National Conference of Bar Examiners, USA, edited Walljasper, A..  Invited paper, 2,000 words
  15. Maharg, P., (2005). A portrait of the online tutor as Thelonius Monk, Directions, 11, http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/directions/issue11/maharg.html (2,058 words)
  16. Gould, H., Hughes, M., McKellar, P., Maharg, P., Nicol, E. (2008) SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMPLE).  Final Programme Report.  43,239 words, 93pp.
  17. Maharg, P. (2008). Simulation Activities for Client-based Compliance Programmes.  Report to law firm Simmons & Simmons, LLP.  (7,500 words)
  18. Maharg, P., Walker, S. (2008). Learning Technologies Development Unit – Activity Report 2006-2008.  Internal Law School report for Law School Review.
  19. Priddle, J., Maharg, P., McKellar, P., Lysaght, D. (2010). Simshare: Project Final Report.  University of Warwick, UKCLE.

Conference Papers & Presentations

The list of conference presentations is extensive, particularly in recent years, in part as a deliberate strategy to publicise my work in the field of legal education and ICT.  Largely as a result of this, GGSL gained a national and international reputation for innovation and excellence in curriculum design and ICT; and the same is beginning to happen for Northumbria University Law School.  Below are the conference and workshop papers I gave in the period Sept 2010 – Dec 2011.

  1. Maharg, P. (2010).  Of kindergartens, art schools and law schools: learning justice in the 21st century.  Inaugural lecture. Northumbria Law School, September.
  2. Garvey, J., Maharg, P. (2010).  Standardized clients and SIMPLE: learning professionalism through simulated practice.  FutureEd 2010 Conference. Harvard University Law School, October.
  3. Maharg, P. (2010).  Experiential learning and the digital domain. Berkman Centre Seminar, Harvard University, October.
  4. Maharg, P. (2010).  A portrait of the law school as realist kindergarten.  Seminar in Honour of William Twining, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. University of London, October.
  5. Maharg, P. (2010).  Simulations as OERs?  HEA MEDEV Centre Conference. Royal Institute of Architects. London, October.
  6. Maharg, P. (2010).  Simulation, Open Education Resources and Simshare.  All day seminar, hosted Centre for Life, Newcastle, December.
  7. Maharg, P. (2011).  Simulation in legal pedagogy: SIMPLE and Simshare.  Invited presentation, University of Northumbria, Health Faculty Workshop, 13 January.
  8. Maharg, P. (2011).  Open Education Resources and simulations.  Invited presentation, University of Glamorgan, UKCLE Subject Centre Workshop on Simulation, 18 January.
  9. Maharg, P. (2011).  Experiential learning and theories of legal education, Invited paper, Law Society of Ireland Workshop on Legal Education, Dublin, 20 January.
  10. Maharg, P. (2011).  Innovative assessment in the law school.  Northumbria Law School, 26 January.
  11. Gill, M., Maharg, P., Rawstorne, J. (2011).  QLTS: client-centred assessment of qualified lawyers.  Learning in Law Annual Conference, 27 January
  12. De Freitas, S., Maharg, P. (2011).  Digital games and learning: theoria, cultura and praxis. Learning in Law Annual Conference.  28 January.
  13. Cunningham, C., Duncan, N., Maharg, P. (2011).  When and how should legal ethics be learned?  Learning in Law Annual Conference.  28 January.
  14. Maharg, P. (2011).  Of kindergartens and law schools: learning justice in the 21st century.  Invited staff development presentation, De Montfort Law School, 9 February.
  15. Maharg, P. (2011).  Digital Games and Learning: contexts of 21st century professional learning.  Invited presentation, BPP, London, 11 February.
  16. Maharg, P. (2011).  Digital Games and Learning: contexts of 21st century professional learning.  E-Learning Special Interest Group, Health Subject Centre, Open University, Milton Keynes, 1 March.
  17. Maharg, P. (2011).  Sea-change.  Invited keynote, British and Irish Law Education Technology Association Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 11 April.
  18. Barton, K., Garvey, J., Maharg, P. (2011).  Standardized clients and SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment): learning professionalism through simulated practice.  FutureEd Conference 3, New York Law School, New York, 15 April.  See http://tinyurl.com/3pjcwfy.
  19. Maharg, P. (2011).  Kindergartens and law school design.  Invited presentation, Exeter University Law School Staff Development Workshop, 4 May
  20. Maharg, P. (2011).  iPads and legal education.  Invited presentation, Exeter University Law School Staff Development Workshop, 4 May.
  21. Maharg, P. (2011).  Sea-change.  Invited presentation, IT Retreat, University of Strathclyde Law School, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, 10 May.
  22. Maharg, P. (2011).  ‘Associated life’: social software, professional relationships and democratic professionalism.  Invited presentations, Law Workshop, College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 5-10 June.
  23. Maharg, P. (2011).  Suspended judgement: Kant, Dewey and Arendt on (re-)thinking reflection and practice.  Critical Thinking inside Law Schools, hosted by Professor Raquel Medina Plana, Legal History Department, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Ulrike Schultz, Senior Academic FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.  Oñati, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 24 June.
  24. Maharg, P. (2011).  Affect and legal education: emotion in learning and teaching the law.  SLS, 5 September.  Session organized by me around the book to be published by Ashgate in late 2011, including Tony Bradney, Sara Chandler, Chris Maguire.  My presentation: Space, absence, silence: the intimate dimensions of legal learning.
  25. Maharg, P. (2011).  Innovation in legal education.  Invited staff development sessions, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Donegal, Ireland, 27 September.
  26. Maharg, P. (2011).  The Standardized Client Initiative (SCI): a portrait of the outsider as teacher.  Teaching Legal Ethics.  Invited presentation, City University, 29 October.
  27. Maharg, P. (2011).  Standardized clients.  Invited staff development, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 7-9 November.
  28. Maharg, P. (2011).  “Associated life”: democratic professionalism and the moral imagination.  Invited staff seminar, UTS, Sydney, 10 November.
  29. Maharg, P. (2011).  OER, Simshare and SIMPLE: learning professionalism through simulated practice.  Invited workshop, Australasian Professional Legal Education Council Conference, UTS, Sydney, 10 November.
  30. Maharg, P. (2011).  Kindergartens for civic and critical professionalism: a transformative vision for law schools.  Invited keynote presentation, Australasian Professional Legal Education Council Conference, UTS, Sydney, 11 November.