The title is Transforming legal education? The regulatory value of shared space. The question mark queries whether or not a shared space approach does, or at least have the potential to, transform legal education. I’ve never doubted it personally through my career, but I need to persuade you, dear reader and lecture attender. Below are some posts from this blog that discuss it.

The lecture is the last outing on the subject before I sit down to write a chapter on it, so I’m hoping for serious questions from readers and listeners. The chapter will appear in an Edward Elgar Advanced Introduction to Legal Education, which is co-authored by Dr Kryss Macleod and me. The book series (short-ish books, c.50k words) is an interesting concept, and some authors have taken quite an imaginative approach to the idea of a book that introduces not the foundations of a subject eg Tort, International Law, etc, in the sense of a textbook Roman institutiones, but a gathering of advanced concepts about the domain. Some are relatively straightforward resumptions; others such as Peter Goodrich’s introduction to law & literature, as you might expect, take a characteristically stylish and more theory-rich approach to the doman.

Regulation doesn’t always find a place in introductions to legal education, but it should, and in an interdisciplinary context. So woven into the lecture are references to ancient regulation of legal education (Roman late republic vs imperial), the implications of Bloom’s concepts of anxious influence, traffic management, the regulation of safety critical industries such as airlines, and much else.

Slides here. I look forward to your comments!