Author: Paul Maharg
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MMU Law School inaugural lecture: regulation & shared space
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…
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Nil sine labore
It’s the motto of the Catholic secondary school I attended, St Mungo Academy (1968-1974), when it was nominally run by Marist Brothers though most of the staff were lay teachers. The previous four years I’d attended a Catholic primary boarding school, St Columba Preparatory College in Largs, where I was also taught by Marist Brothers.…
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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…
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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…
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New look…
I was re-organising the back office of my blog and then I thought, why not tidy up the front office too. So here it is – a work in progress as all blogs are. I’ve included the blog on Sim Clients, which used to be over on Typepad since about 2011 – it’s now at…
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Mergers & collaborations
Mergers & collaborations are in the air, again. A while back City St George’s president Anthony Finkelstein, aka prof serious, recommended consolidating providers to improve the HE sector’s finances. The merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich into the London & South East Group has been approved by the Dept for Education. They’re one…
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Panel session: The Role of AI and Legal Education, Westminster U Law School
A couple of weeks ago I spoke on a panel session at a one-day conference organised by Westminster U Law School – The Role of AI and legal education: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers. I was on annual leave at the time, in Florence, so attended only the panel not the whole conference, but…
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Happy anniversary, blog
Since I seem to be thinking about things past more than present or future at the moment, before this year’s end I want to mark the 20th anniversary of my blog. I started in 2005, around January, I think, on Blogger. Felt uneasy with the platform though, so quickly moved to Typepad, which was then…
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My first experience of digital education
After I finished my Arts doctoral thesis and Education qualifications, and before I turned to Law, I worked as a part-time tutor in the Eng Lit dept at Glasgow University. I kept in touch with my medieval tutor, Des O’Brien, who was an extraordinary polymath. In 1987 he obtained a grant from the Computers in…
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To leaf is to learn
Campus architecture aesthetics really do matter, to both staff and students inhabiting a place. Wherever I am in the world, I love exploring them – they say so much about the values and character of the institution. During my two weeks here on the University of Leeds campus every day I walked a different route…
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Liberty Fellowship, School of Law, University of Leeds
I’ve been appointed to an honorary Liberty Visiting Fellowship at the School of Law, University of Leeds. I’m here working with colleagues in CIRLE, the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education in the law school, and giving two seminars, chairing & presenting at a webinar, leading an early career researcher workshop and giving…