Category: legal education

  • BILETA 2024

    I’m at the two-day BILETA 2024 annual conference, held this year in Dublin, hosted by Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. As an Honorary Vice President of BILETA I was invited by the Executive to participate in a roundtable on the newly-minted policy document, ‘A manifesto for the post-pandemic university’. The document describes…

  • Redivivus

    To all three of my readers, apologies for my disappearance over the past year and more. Many things intervened, including job changes, illness, house moves ending up here on the Isle of Skye; the acquisition of a giant collie and a motorbike (more of which anon), the renewal of old acquaintances, Hannah Arendt, Adam Ferguson…

  • SC Workshop: Final plenary

    First, a word about the two sessions that weren’t recorded, namely the demo interview with Alexis Callen as lawyer and Dana Mohr as SC, and the panel: Alexis, Dana, Joan Rilling.  Alexis did exceptionally well as a 1L lawyer, and Dana was first rate at enacting the client, and then switching into feedback mode with…

  • BILETA22: Day 2: Parallel session: Future Technologies

    Post-lunch, and still motoring here, though battery levels dropping.  Final parallel paper session of the conference and I’m in on the Future Tech stream, hanging on to the coat-tails of presenters’ expertise across a dizzying array of topics and technologies.  Sitting in on sessions like these when it’s not your expert area sure soaks up…

  • BILETA22: Day 2: Plenary and legal education stream

    First up, yours truly giving the second keynote, on legal education.  Slides in the usual place at the Slides tab above, and can be downloaded from Slideshare.  More of that at a later date. In the paper sessions, it’s legal education time, and Claudy Op den Kamp (Bournemouth) is first up, on ‘”Collagementary” as a…

  • BILETA22: Day 1: Digital, cloud & internet regulation & governance

    Catching up on the day job, so missed a couple of streams. First our Chair of BILETA, Abbe Brown of Aberdeen U Law Faculty.  Her paper, Regulatory creativity: Combination and coherence? explored  legal and regulatory creativity as different actors and regimes seek – directly and indirectly, deliberately and perhaps not – to draw together different…

  • BILETA22: Day 1, Digital Cultures stream

    First up is Nadia Feci and Valerie Verdoodt (KU Leuven & UGent), on the ‘Legal implications of monetising creativity on video-sharing platforms: Hobby, side-hustle or career?’ One of Nadia’s directions of research is investigating the line between professional and hobbyist in the area of user-generated videos (UGV) – typically bloggers, vloggers, influencers, game-streamers (Twitch), etc. …

  • Emerging Legal Education & Digital Games, Simulations and Learning series – five new volumes

    First of all apologies to all three of my readers who have got in touch to ask if I had departed this world or worse stopped blogging.  It’s been an unconscionable time, but I’m still hanging in there.  Been mega-busy with projects at Osgoode and my new role at Newcastle University Law School, and elsewhere…

  • 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…