Tag: law school

  • Revisiting ‘Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School for?’ 20 years on.

    Am back in Northumbria Law School for this event organised by Northumbria School of Law and Nottingham Law School, funded by the Modern Law Review. Was late because I thought I knew my way round Newcastle – so like Glasgow in so many ways – but stopped to re-orient (sea is on the wrong side,…

  • Directions, day two: The Big Debate

    We have a panel of law deans, practitioners and students to discuss legal education — Chris Gane, Michael Hor, Geraint Howells, Mike McConville, Jeremy Dein, Icarus Ho Shing Chan, Brigitte Kiu, Patricia Lam, Siegfried Sin, Justice John L. Saundersand chaired by Richard Morris.  The debate is focused on ‘Navigating the (academic) law degree: are we…

  • 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…

  • Caste in law schools?

    Caste, it appears, doesn’t exist in law schools.  But Sameena argues the opposite — it’s very much there.  Cf World Report 2008 – ‘Dalits and indigenous peoples … continue to face discrimination, exclusion and acts of violence.’  In law and caste, what happens to these cases?  Very little data — eg number of cases.  And…

  • Recently…

    Long time no blog!  I'm thinking of moving platform, and about to start that soon (the task of shifting old posts is non-trivial, as I've discovered), but meantime there are so many interesting happening.  I've been on research leave since February, and the routine has been scribbling scribbling (digitally) in my wee room at home,…