Tag: disintermediation

  • Disintermediation and continuity

    Last year Michele Pistone and Michael Horn published an excellent piece on law schools and disruption that’s full of interesting thinking about law school futures.  It was published in the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and follows in the mainstream of Christensen’s thinking on disruption.  I agree with almost all of it.  I’m also aware…

  • SLS Conference, Legal Education, Law Teacher Special Issue session

    This was the first session on Day 2 of the SLS Conference Legal Education section, a session devoted to the Special Issue on Learning/Technology, The Law Teacher, vol 50 issue 1 [paywall], that was published earlier this year, edited by me.  That issue, comprising six papers and discussed on this blog post, was entitled Learning/Technology because I wanted…

  • Directions in Legal Education Conference, Chinese U of HK Faculty of Law

    Am attending the above conference (#legaled16) at CUHK Law Faculty, giving one of the plenaries — slides in the usual places, on Slideshare and on the Slides tab above.  I’ll be talking about disintermediation, which I find a fascinating subject, and making broader points about its effects on legal education than I raised in my…

  • Disintermediation in law schools

    Now in Canberra, at the National Law Reform Conference being held in ANU, 14-15 April.  Some great papers.  This morning I heard my colleague Vivien Holmes on her work on legal ethics, and embedding it within legal education; Justine Rogers on teamwork, presenting both sides of the debate, massively referenced, and raising key issues about the…

  • BILETA conference 2015

    Am giving a paper at BILETA 2015, entitled ‘Disintermediation and legal education’.  Slides up on Slideshare and at the Slides tab above.  Abstract: Disintermediation is a concept well-understood in almost all industries. At its simplest, it refers to the process by which intermediaries in a supply chain are eliminated, most often by digital re-engineering of…