Tag: Affect

  • Sim Clients @ Osgoode

    We’ve organised student interviews with our Sim Clients (SCs) this academic year again in Osgoode Hall Law School.  As before, we ran the project in the JD 1L, but this time in the first, not the second, semester. And as before we ran the project in Legal Process (subject leader Shelley Margot Kierstead, with the…

  • Parallel session 4b: Emotion, empathy and relationships

    I’m chairing so comments will be shorter.  First up, Jenny Richards, Flinders U., on ‘ Developing a sociolegal theory of criminal lawyering: increasing wellbeing through holistic engagement with clients’.  She focused on both her work as a lecturer at Flinders, and as a lawyer at the Criminal Bar.  Managing client emotions were a key need…

  • Affect

    Just dealt with the final queries for our book, Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, edited by Caroline Maughan and myself, which is now in production.  It’s the first book-length study of the subject – astonishingly, given the importance of emotion to teaching and learning.  It’s also another first, being the first…