Tag: experiential learning

  • 3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, day 3, am

    Final day, focusing on how assessment was being carried out throughout the ETL Consortium.  Four 15 min presentations: ‘Are experiential modules really better? Qualitative assessment for student learning’, Christine Cerniglia Brown and Monica Hof Wallace (Loyola U New Orleans College of Law). ‘Assessing the “Roadmap for Employment” Experiment, Neil Hamilton, U of St Tomas School…

  • Session 6: Legal education

    Missed the plenary — one of the dangers of having a conference in your workplace. This morning, another three legal education streams to choose from — riches!  I’m in a session with Michael McShane presenting on ‘Should law schools focus on the discipline or the profession of law?’

  • ALTA Conference, plenary 1

    I’m live blogging the ALTA conference, held this year at ANU College of Law.  The theme of the conference invites us to explore the idea of law teachers as gatekeepers.  First plenary is Carrie Menkel-Meadow, who started by talking about gatecrashing or rather gate-opening as characterising her career.  Question:  are we teaching sovereignty or humanity?  What is…

  • LILAC: Visions of Legal Education

    The panel discussion, chaired by Avrom and responding in part to the film produced by UKCLE, started with useful contributions from Chris Maguire, Melissa Hardee and Roger Burridge.  There were spirited responses from the floor but the debate resolved yet again into an either/or, between versions of the liberal law school and versions of the…