Tag: professional education

  • Teaching ≈ Learning ≈ Regulation

    At the behest of Dr Paulina Wilson of QUB I recently wrote a short piece for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly series called Reflections on Teaching. Around 5,000 words. Usually it takes me 5K to draw breath, so it was quite a challenge to reflect on 44 years in education, 34 of them in legal…

  • Webinar: Simulation and learning in law & business – the use of SIMple & simulated clients

    This event, hosted by SCiLAB, focused on two significant educational approaches in Law and related disciplines, namely the use of a new simulation platform, SIMple, along with the use of simulated clients (SCs). In more detail… SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMple) SIMple is a digital simulation platform for use by law schools and other client-based disciplines…

  • BILETA 2024: Legal education session 1

    Four papers. First up, Nick Scharf from East Anglia U, on an intriguing interdisciplinary topic: ‘Give the Drummer Some: Reflecting on the use of the drum kit to enhance student learning of copyright law’. As he describes it in his abstract ‘The approach outlined here breaks from the traditional question/answer/discussion structure of seminars and allows…

  • Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 1, pm

    First session after lunch is a continuation of the theme of clinic.  First up, Kathleen Laverty, Director of Strathclyde Law Clinic, Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow.  They don’t have an aim to educate students – not that that isn’t important, but social justice is the first aim and education flows from that.  So the Social Justice…

  • LETR conference: Professional Panel

    The panel comprised three representatives of regulatory bodies.  First up, Julie Brannan, Director of Education and Training.  Her slide points out which of LETR recommendations the SRA accepted: She also pointed out the themes that were recognised by the SRA and the evidence drawn upon. She also outlined the SRA response, its view of regulation,…

  • Conference: LETR – Five Years On

    The Legal Education and Training Review submitted its findings five years ago now – seems more like 15 years to be honest, so much has happened in the interim.  To mark the occasion, Jessica Guth of Leeds Law School at Leeds Beckett University has organised the above conference, taking place tomorrow.  LETR’s co-authors Julian Webb,…

  • Directions, day two: parallel sessions two

    The Organising C’ttee are working us hard.  Straight into the rigours of a group photo, brief caffeine break, then into the final session of the day and the conference.  I attended ‘Training for the Profession II, chaired by Luke Marsh.  First up, Dr Gigimon VS, on ‘Legal education: looking to an uncharted future.  Dr Gigimon…

  • Post-LETR, what’s the regulatory position on legal education in E+W?

    In her recent visit to Australian law schools Jane Ching of Nottingham Law School, a co-author of LETR, spent a week as a Visitor at ANU College of Law, and with PEARL staff in particular.  We discussed how Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education could work closely with PEARL and with other legal educational…

  • WG Hart, day 2, session 5

    Last session, and I was talking in the graveyard shift alongside Andrew Sanders and John Flood, so can’t comment much on that session, except to say that Andrew Sanders’ presentation  was sincere, well-argued and punchy, but I disagreed with almost all of it, including its general argument that ‘[i]f the LETR report is followed, narrow doctrinairism…

  • WG Hart, day 2, session 2

    Parallel session: Pat Leighton, The LLB as a liberal degree? A re-assessment from an historical perspective.  There’s been a failure to develop a coherent and robust LLB in law schools.  We need to explore the culture of what we teach, how we teach it.  Pat focuses on the LLB, its history and culture.  She has…

  • WG Hart, session 2

    Nina Fletcher, Law Society of E+W, on Solicitors and the market for legal services: perspectives on change, the future and uncertainty.  Stats on the legal market quite interesting update on LETR.  There’s been substantial growth in net export of legal services; ‘retail’ work (ie work undertaken on behalf of ordinary citizens) contributes to around 30% of…

  • LETR read, misread, unread

    I’ve been at three LETR-related events the last couple of weeks — the seminar at UCL on Legal Innovation — How Should the Educators Respond,   a SLS/IALS event, The Role of Academics in Legal Education & Training, and a LERN event — After the LETR, what should we be researching and how.  I was speaking…