Category: legal education

  • Sea-change

    Happy New Year to all readers!  My article, Sea-change, was published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession, in a number dedicated to William Twining (seminar held in his honour was blogged here). When I got down to writing the article, though, I found myself writing about something rather different from the seminar presentation, though…

  • Liveblogging

    Liveblogging an event is basically where you do just that — blog it as it happens.  Nice post, via Stephen Downes’ Oldaily, from Matt Thompson over at Poynter, on how to do it and why he likes doing it.  Stephen summarises it well — – a liveblog forces you to genuinely pay attention – it…

  • Sirious stuff

    I see Siri’s in the news again — there’s now a proxy available.  An earlier article commented on the use of Siri, saying he or she (she from now on) mostly has been quizzed on her relationship with Hal 9000 (she won’t discuss it), asked for stories (she has one to tell, if pushed) and deluged with requests for illegal…

  • Interpretation, narrative, sim learning

    You know how it is: you talk about things at a seminar or workshop, and then you rehearse it afterwards, the things you should have said, directions you might have taken but didn’t.  One of the things I should have talked about in the optional APLEC workshop, if there had been time, was the power…

  • Standardized clients @ ANU Legal Workshop

    Still catching up on AU activities, before the plane later today flies me back to northern winter.  As Adjunct Prof at ANU I spent the earlier part of the week training Standardized Clients at ANU’s Legal Workshop, and simultaneously training the staff under Margie Rowe’s capable direction who will take on the future training.  Our…

  • APLEC 2012 roundup

    Fine conference, well designed for its participants by the UTS team.  Professional legal ed conferences are different from academic in terms of the quantity & quality of research and discussion arising out of research.  Papers tend to be much more practical, linked to legal practice, obviously, or linked to legal educational practice.  As always there’s…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, second plenaries

    Sally Kift’s keynote presentation gave an overview of academic standards in AU HE — ‘Academic standards: the national context and remifications for legal education’. She outlined, as she said, a highly complex field, a ‘perfect storm’ of regulation for AU HE and PLT in particular.  Her presentation was vintage Kift: hugely informative, delivery at a…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentations 2 & 3

    Next up was Deborah Ankor (again — with all this innovation she’s creating @ Flinders does she ever sleep?), on ‘Using Standardized Clients for assessing interviewing skills’. This was the report on an initial trial using SCs. The context: an LLB/LP incorporating skills throughout the degree (so unusual degree structure) — fairly conventional teaching, in…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentation 1

    In the first of the small group sessions on Saturday, I attended the ‘Addressing Stakeholders Needs’ stream. First up was Helen McGowan, on ‘The Bush lawyer pipeline: service learning and practical legal training in regional Australia’. Legal aid, aboriginal community service and other adjacent services that were RRR — regional, rural and remote [check out the videos…

  • APLEC, Friday pm, plenaries

    Your intrepid blogger ducked out of the next plenary session to sit in the pleasant courtyard of the UTS law school and catch up on postings and email; so for me the Stakeholders’ Panel was next up — ‘How does PLT fair from the other side?’ The Panel consisted of Michael Day, DPP, Vivien Swain, Magistrate,…

  • APLEC, Friday am, presentations, 1 & 2

    In the paper sessions Deborah Ankor gave a very interesting presentation on her work and Lucy Evans’, at Flinders, modestly titled ‘Simulation on a shoestring: or how does one create a virtual experiential space with no more than an ancient learning management system’. There was reference to my work, but Deborah is taking the heuristic forward…

  • APLEC 2012 conference, University of Technology, Sydney

    I’m at the APLEC conference (Australasian Professional Legal Education Council), held this year in UTS, Sydney, having been invited by Maxine Evers to give one of the keynotes at the conference on the Friday am.  Slides for that are over on the Slides page. On the Thursday pm prior to the conference I gave a…