Author: Paul Maharg

  • SC Workshop: Plenary

    It’s Friday 29 April, and our long-planned SC Workshop (SCW) is starting.  It’s hosted by Angela Yenssen and myself.  Angela is a Toronto lawyer, used to be my wonderful RA, and worked with me on many projects including SC projects at Osgoode.  She’ll be chairing most sessions, and I’ll be liveblogging the sessions where I…

  • Invitation to our Osgoode Sim Client Workshop

    For the last four years or so I’ve been working on a variety of projects with faculty in Osgoode Hall Law School & Osgoode Professional Development (OPD) and in Ontario more generally, and with regulators across Canada.  One project is the use of Sim Clients (SCs) in JD legal education, primary professional courses and CPD…

  • BILETA22 conference: Final thoughts and farewells

    This was a braw, brave conference.  James Griffin and Exeter were our hosts, and they did us proud with an ambitious hybrid format that was a first for a BILETA conference and that’s damn difficult to organise.  Kudos to all who organised and assisted.  The Oxford Abstracts conference software was so useful, again, as it…

  • BILETA22: Day 2: Parallel session: Future Technologies

    Post-lunch, and still motoring here, though battery levels dropping.  Final parallel paper session of the conference and I’m in on the Future Tech stream, hanging on to the coat-tails of presenters’ expertise across a dizzying array of topics and technologies.  Sitting in on sessions like these when it’s not your expert area sure soaks up…

  • BILETA22: Day 2: Plenary and legal education stream

    First up, yours truly giving the second keynote, on legal education.  Slides in the usual place at the Slides tab above, and can be downloaded from Slideshare.  More of that at a later date. In the paper sessions, it’s legal education time, and Claudy Op den Kamp (Bournemouth) is first up, on ‘”Collagementary” as a…

  • BILETA22: Day 1: Digital, cloud & internet regulation & governance

    Catching up on the day job, so missed a couple of streams. First our Chair of BILETA, Abbe Brown of Aberdeen U Law Faculty.  Her paper, Regulatory creativity: Combination and coherence? explored  legal and regulatory creativity as different actors and regimes seek – directly and indirectly, deliberately and perhaps not – to draw together different…

  • BILETA22: Day 1, Digital Cultures stream

    First up is Nadia Feci and Valerie Verdoodt (KU Leuven & UGent), on the ‘Legal implications of monetising creativity on video-sharing platforms: Hobby, side-hustle or career?’ One of Nadia’s directions of research is investigating the line between professional and hobbyist in the area of user-generated videos (UGV) – typically bloggers, vloggers, influencers, game-streamers (Twitch), etc. …

  • BILETA 2022

    Well that was quite a hiatus.  Almost a year to the day with no posts, and I’m now at another BILETA conference – this time, my last.  Which is not to say that I’ve had nothing to say for a year.  Perhaps it would be best to say that energies have been put to other…

  • BILETA 2021 Conference

    The BILETA 2021 Conference will be kicking off next week – 0915 BST Wed 14 April – 1800 BST Friday 16 April.  I’ve been organising this year’s online conference on behalf of Newcastle University Law School with the assistance of my super virtual assistant Kirsty Melvin.  We have over 80 papers, two plenaries, two paper…

  • Publisher greed in the pandemic – the clusterbùrach #UCMIU

    Readers of this blog will be aware of my interest in the long-term predatory practices of academic journal publishers – see here and here.  Back in November 2018 my fellow editors Catherine Easton (general editor, EJCLI) and Abhilash Nair (editor-in-chief, EJLT) and I in November 2018 published a post summarising our article in the EJLT on the…

  • Emerging Legal Education & Digital Games, Simulations and Learning series – five new volumes

    First of all apologies to all three of my readers who have got in touch to ask if I had departed this world or worse stopped blogging.  It’s been an unconscionable time, but I’m still hanging in there.  Been mega-busy with projects at Osgoode and my new role at Newcastle University Law School, and elsewhere…

  • Learning & teaching session @ Canadian Assoc for Legal Ethics (CALE) conference

    Am at Windsor Law School, on the Detroit River, attending the CALE annual conference on legal ethics.  I’m reporting on the education session which had with four presentations.  Leslie Walden (Ottawa) presented on ‘Incorporating Government Lawyers into Legal Ethics Teaching’.  Pooja Parmar (Victoria) gave us an interesting account of her students learning legal ethics at…