Category: LETR

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education – liveblog

    Am liveblogging the conference as much as I can.  Julian and I up first, slides on the Slides tab.  Whirlwind tour of past & present on the theme of the title, ‘Of tails and dogs: Standards, standardisation and innovation in assessment’. First up, Craig Newbury-Jones and Nigel Firth, Plymouth U Law School, on ‘Digital assessment for…

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education

    This is a conference hosted by the Association of Law Teachers at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, today, and part of their 50th anniversary celebrations (there’s a 50 Years of Legal Education conference later in the year), which are looking back as well as looking forward to the future(s) of legal education.  Maybe it’s…

  • Convergence and fragmentation

    I’m giving a paper today at Melbourne Law School, by kind invitation of Gary Cazalet, title ‘Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, informatics and legal education’.  Slides up on the Slides page above.  The paper is a version of draft chapter five of a book I’m writing, Genealogies of Legal Education (interim chapter titles in the…

  • LETR on regulatory relationships

    I was revisiting LETR on regulatory relationship for a paper I was giving here at Denver U Sturm College of Law.  A year or so on, how is it looking?  The responses of the main regulators were reasonably predictable though the future consequences of their actions are difficult to foresee.  But what of the report itself?…

  • Dangerous research

    I’ve been catching up on and re-reading the recent regulatory literature coming from the ABA, now that I’m here in the USA and discussing experiential learning, assessment and much else with Roberto Corrada and his colleagues at Sturm Law School, University of Denver.  The ABA Task Force report & recommendations that came out earlier this year…

  • ILEC 20214, Session 4

    Session 2 I was presenting on a version of The Wrong Story — slides on the Slides page, on the tab above.  Also on the panel were Victoria Rees, regulator, BC Canada, and Adrian Evans.  Had to take time to answer stuff coming in on email, but here we are at 4B, ‘Responding to the…

  • Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations

    Kate Galloway has posted on the digital revolution and the legal curriculum, and her piece warrants discussion.  From her conclusion: I believe it possible to develop an ‘immersion’ law curriculum using digital literacies as an organising context. A scaffolded approach to knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential part of the contemporary law curriculum. This…

  • WG Hart, day 2, session 5

    Last session, and I was talking in the graveyard shift alongside Andrew Sanders and John Flood, so can’t comment much on that session, except to say that Andrew Sanders’ presentation  was sincere, well-argued and punchy, but I disagreed with almost all of it, including its general argument that ‘[i]f the LETR report is followed, narrow doctrinairism…

  • WG Hart, day 2, session 3

    Andrew Francis, on Legal education, social mobility and employability: possible selves, curriculum intervention and the role of legal work experience.  What is legal employability?  He drew on his empirical research into the habitus of graduate employment and employability, and how this influences social mobility.  He observed that students viewed informal work experience positively, but learnt little that…

  • WG Hart Workshop – opening address & law in context session

    Am at the WG Hart Workshop, IALS, liveblogging.  Entered the lecture theatre to Harry Arthurs appearing virtually from Canada.  Vintage Arthurs, but have I come to the wrong conference?  No, Avrom is upfront, and all the usual suspects in the audience.  Harry states a fundamental opposition between academy and profession, emphasising distinguished scholarship over skills…

  • Our data: free and open-access

    Recently I was trawling a publisher’s website for a technology article (Springer, since you ask), with no-access pages and tariff barriers all around me, when a cheeky wee popup asked me: Would you use a data collaboration website to share your research data with colleagues? Yes, publicly Yes, but only privately No I don’t have…

  • LETR and legal education research infrastructure

    The LERN event earlier this month, part of which I summarised here, picked up on the LETR call for more and better research into legal education.  The LETR report was tasked to be evidence-based, and thus to inform the second phase of LETR which we are now in.  As we pointed out, though, the literature needs…