Tag: legal research

  • Convergence and fragmentation

    I’m giving a paper today at Melbourne Law School, by kind invitation of Gary Cazalet, title ‘Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, informatics and legal education’.  Slides up on the Slides page above.  The paper is a version of draft chapter five of a book I’m writing, Genealogies of Legal Education (interim chapter titles in the…

  • Research skills and the researchers of tomorrow

    More on research skills, this time on the wider context from Jisc.  Their report, out in 2012, revealed the serious problems and the huge potential of the digital shift.  Over a project span of three years Researchers of Tomorrow analysed the working practices of  around 17,000 doctoral students born between 1982 & 1994, the so-called Gen…

  • Research skills: a failure of imagination

    Thanks to Kristoffer Greaves for pointing me in the direction of the recent workshop on Teaching Research Skills to Law Students, summarised in Jenni Carr’s HEA Social Science blog.  I’m in Canberra now, so couldn’t make the workshop, but Rosemary Auchmuty, who authored the posting, has done a good job in pulling together the slides…

  • Collaboration & convergence

    I shouldn’t really be, but I’m always surprised by how little inter-institutional collaboration takes place in legal education.  Here’s an example of how valuable it can be not just for the partners, but for students and regulators too.