Author: Paul Maharg

  • Ross Priory, 2011

    Spent two days at the invitation of Alan Paterson (Strathclyde) and Richard Susskind discussing legal practice and legal education at Ross Priory, Strathclyde’s retreat house on Loch Lomond, which has one of the best views anywhere in Scotland.  Great hospitality, great talk and insight.  This year Richard had invited Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies…

  • New book series: Emerging Legal Learning – call for titles

    Over the past six months or so, amongst much else I've been involved in putting together a couple of book series.  This post is about the first: Emerging Legal Learning (ELL), published by Ashgate Publishing and co-edited with Caroline Maughan, Visiting Fellow, Bristol Law School, and Elizabeth Mertz, Professor, Wisconsin-Madison Law School and the American Bar…

  • Systems learning

    Before the conference started John Garvey took Karen Barton and me to a school in Tribeca where his daughter taught, and to a class where the grade one kids (ages of around 6) were learning about library cards.  It was a wonderful class.  

  • The money

    Third place, by the way, landed us a cheque (or rather a check) for $6.62M (virtual).  Any ideas how I get that into the UK?

  • 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,…

  • William Twining: IALS Workshop in his honour

    Gave a paper yesterday at IALS, U. of London.  It was given in a workshop held in honour of William Twining, one of the finest legal educationalists we have in these isles.  I first came across his work after my two years of a postgrad LLB degree at Glasgow University, 1990-92. 

  • ‘Not just another gabfest’

    Elizabeth Chambless's phrase, her ambition for the conference, and it summed it up.  So many legal ed conferences end up as gabfests.  Part of the intellectual buzz of legal education, for me at any rate, is the practical buzz of doing, planning, executing great ideas that are part of the great tradition of innovation in…

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Final Plenary session

    Mitt Regan led the session discussion on technology — summarised below.   Four summaries: Professional Development Proposals Principles One size doesn't fit all law schools There are a different set of competencies that might predict law student abilities There are different and broader sets of skills that need to be articulated There is a global…

  • Lunch time session: Q & A with Laura Taylor

    Lunch time Laura Taylor, General Counsel, Chlorox.  Q & A session with David Wilkins.  David began by asking her what students lacked when they started with her dept.  She replied: Project Management Leadership International business experience.   Flexibility David — global dimension: you must have global competences today if you want to be a leader……

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Proposals for reform Professional Development Proposals

    Good introduction by Elizabeth Chambless — feasibility, impact? These were defined as essential for the success of the proposals.  Not all proposals presented are summarised below.  All of them are interesting, though, and can be found on the NYLS web site here.

  • Overheard at the conference…

    If the Apostles had Facebook pages, Christianity would never have got off the ground.    

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – SCs + SIMPLE

    John Garvey (U of New Hampshire) and I present on our joint project to develop a new form of sim using SCs and SIMPLE (slides).  If you want to follow up the discussions, please feel free to post comments here…