Category: legal education regulation
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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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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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Simulated Client workshop summary
The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson once observed that if you wish to understand a culture, study its nurseries. There is a similar principle for the understanding of professions: if you wish to understand why professions develop as they do, study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation. When you do, you will generally…
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BILETA 2024: Legal education manifesto
It was billed in the conference programme as the launch of the BILETA online teaching policy. But the document is more subtle and radical than this: a BILETA manifesto; not teaching-focused but learning-centred; not just online but education in the round. Why a manifesto, why now? There was a feeling that post-pandemic, with the drift…