Category: legal education

  • 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…

  • Sim Clients @ Osgoode

    We’ve organised student interviews with our Sim Clients (SCs) this academic year again in Osgoode Hall Law School.  As before, we ran the project in the JD 1L, but this time in the first, not the second, semester. And as before we ran the project in Legal Process (subject leader Shelley Margot Kierstead, with the…

  • Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 2, am, session 2

    Coffee break, during which I managed to crash WordPress then my MacBook with too many uploads of photos of slides.  Managed to sort it all out with the help of more coffee to combat creeping jet lag (that time in the morning) but missed the first 15 mins or so of the final session –…

  • Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 2, am, session 1

    Second day of the conference, and we’re focusing first on technology and innovations in legal education, followed after the break by a session on experiential learning and innovation in professional education.  For reference, full conference programme here. We start with the third keynote, this time from Daniel Rodriguez from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, on…

  • Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 1, am

    I’m at this conference at the invitation of Wilson Chow and the conference committee. It’s one of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of HKU’s Faculty of Law.  It’s great to be back in HK and meet colleagues and friends in the Faculty, and talk over projects.  More of that…

  • CLEO Conference: Games, Stories and Simulations

    Am here in London South Bank University Law at the invitation of Emily Allbon, Dawn Watkins and Andy Unger, who are convening this one-day event.  CLEO is the Clinical Legal Education Organisation, but as the title suggests, the speakers are moving well beyond the usual framework of clinic. There will be Belbin role games and design…

  • Assessment in Legal Education – new book series

    Today ANU Press has published Assessment in Legal Education. Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law. Vol 1: England.  It’s the first volume in a series, this volume edited by Alison Bone and myself.  The series editors are Craig Collins and Vivien Holmes (ANU College of Law); I’m consultant editor.  ANU Press is an…

  • Pressing problems MLR seminar, final thoughts

    The seminar organisers based the conference on a book of essays edited by Peter Birks entitled Pressing Problems in the Law. Vol 2. What are Law Schools For? and published by OUP in 1996 (hereafter, ‘Birks’). I remember buying it around 1997 or 1998, second-hand, from Voltaire & Rousseau, in Glasgow.  Five years out from…

  • Constitution, institution, foundation: a ius commune of legal education

    In a chapter I finished a while back for Catrina Denvir’s forthcoming book on Modernising Legal Education I explored what modernising the law school actually means, with case studies – hence the title, referencing Talking Heads, ‘Same as it ever was?  Second modernity, technocracy, and the design of digital legal education’.  As I point out,…

  • New beginnings

    Tonight is the formal opening of Osgoode Professional Development’s (OPD) newly refurbished premises on floor 26 of 1 Dundas St West, downtown Toronto. Now the view inside will match the stunning views outside to Lake Ontario and the Toronto Islands, Algonquin Island, and all the way west and south to Mississauga, glimpsed through a foreground…

  • Osgoode Sim Client Project

    We’ve finished our Simulated Client (SC) project at Osgoode Hall Law School, which was around three months in the planning. Further and much more detailed analysis later, but this is a quick post for now to summarise what we did.

  • LETR conference: parallel papers, 2

    First up, Jenny Gibbons on ‘Curriculum as constitution’.  Fascinating analogy, which I’ve explored elsewhere.  She started with Fortnite Island.  To play the game you need to: learn the rules of the game know how to find and use yr materials take time to create safe spaces learn to maximise yr advantage in encounters learn from…