Tag: susskind
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Plenary, Carrie Menkel-Meadow: ‘Thinking or acting like a lawyer? What we don’t know about legal education and are afraid to ask’.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow needs no introduction. She’s looking at six claims that things change legal education and lawyering. Her slides are dense with information, so will do what I can to summarise the myths and their details. Myth 1: legal education = think like a lawyer. What about doctrine in CL and civil jurisdictions. Method is…
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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…
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Red LETR day… LETR Symposium, day 1, pm
First session in the afternoon was a session on the three scenarios LETR has drawn up. Very interesting feedback on the three regulatory models from my small group which included great international lawyers & educators such as Alan Treleaven, Paul Woods Afternoon keynote was Susskind on how we can train 21st century lawyers. We don’t:…
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BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote
Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’ Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…? and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s). His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…