Tag: bileta conference

  • BILETA 2021 Conference

    The BILETA 2021 Conference will be kicking off next week – 0915 BST Wed 14 April – 1800 BST Friday 16 April.  I’ve been organising this year’s online conference on behalf of Newcastle University Law School with the assistance of my super virtual assistant Kirsty Melvin.  We have over 80 papers, two plenaries, two paper…

  • BILETA 2017, Parallel session 1

    I’m attending a parallel session on ‘Online speech’, with the first two addressing the problems of fake news.  First up, Felipe Romero Moreno.  He analysed the definition, purpose, impact, liability, govt response and possible solutions.  On definition, he noted the difficulty — perhaps best described as ‘news without any basis in fact’.  He noted Jonathan Zittrain…

  • BILETA Conference 2014, UEA

    Am liveblogging the BILETA 2014 conference at the University of East Anglia.  I missed last year’s Liverpool conference, so it’s great to be here amongst BILETA colleagues again.  Multiple streams, so can only provide a snapshot of some.  Am in the IP stream, and first up, Chen Wei Zhu, from Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in…

  • European Journal of Law & Technology: BILETA special edition

    The latest issue of EJLT is out, and it’s a special edition, edited by Sefton Bloxham and me, consisting of papers from the 2012 BILETA (British & Irish Law Education Technology Association) legal education stream.  The conference was liveblogged on this blog.  Surprisingly, and against the run of recent conferences, there was a surge of…

  • BILETA Conference loose ends & reflections

    Loose ends first. Abhilash are aware that the BILETA postgraduate prize wasn’t awarded this year at the conference dinner.  We’re putting together a proposal for the postgrads who submitted papers (the quality of which impressed quite a few folk), and that will be up on the social networking site early next week. There will be…

  • BILETA Conference, Chris Reed keynote

    Battery was flat, no free p/point in main hall, so had to hand-write these notes, then type & upload later.  Strange experience, writing…  I think it might catch on. Chris began his keynote on why laws fail in cyberspace by giving us examples of laws and lawmaking & lawbreaking, particularly in cyberspace.  In general, he…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education, 5

    Sandy Meredith on ‘A critical look at using referencing software – EndNote Refworks & Zotero – with the OSCOLA style OR does technology inhibit or enhance the writing skills of doctoral students? What do we want from referencing software?  organized storage of data, dowload of reference data from dbases, input of reference data to footnotes…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education 1

    Live-blogging of our conference has begun!  Dean Kerrigan of NU Law School opened the conference — Gavin Sutter is our new Chair and we’ll be breaking out into small groups.  I’m going to join the legal education session for most of the day. Sefton Bloxham is in the Chair, and announced that HEA is offering…

  • BILETA2012: conference essay

      ‘Too many laws, too few examples’.  Our conference theme is a quotation from the French revolutionary, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just.  It goes to the heart of a long debate about regulation – how best to regulate human activities, and inspire good conduct.  Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words…