Category: legal education

  • Affect and Legal Education published

    Affect and Legal Education, co-edited with Caroline Maughan, is now published and will be available later this month. Been quite a while in the making, but a book on the topic was long overdue.  I remember when writing an article on legal education and Carl Rogers, over a decade ago, how surprising it was that so little…

  • Workshop on legal ethics, pm

    Afternoon session consisted of a workshop by Graham Ferris and Jane Jarman on addressing pluralism and the discourse it leads to; and yours truly, on ‘The Standardized Client Initiative (SCI): a portrait of the outsider as teacher’ — slides at Slideshare, or on the Slides page here.   The title refers to one of the…

  • Affect

    Just dealt with the final queries for our book, Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, edited by Caroline Maughan and myself, which is now in production.  It’s the first book-length study of the subject – astonishingly, given the importance of emotion to teaching and learning.  It’s also another first, being the first…

  • Standardized Clients @ Northumbria University Law School

    Karen Barton and I were at Northumbria U Law School this week, training Standardized Clients (SCs), at the invitation of Jonny Hall, Acting Associate Dean.  We had a brilliant time – what a great bunch of SCs – attentive, witty, fast learners.  Northumbria U. is the first English university to adopt the method – why…