Category: legal education
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Vivien Holmes, Pamela Taylor-Barnett: The power of narrative – immersive video/audio work with students
Vivien and Pamela presented on the work they’re doing on using video clips to enhance the approaches taken by Mary Gentile in her educational design work and in her fine book, Giving Voice to Values. The video excerpts, produced in ANU College of Law, are well-acted, short piece-to-camera, direct and powerful. Students watch them, then…
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Moira Murray: Student evaluation of the use of SCs at ANU College of Law
Moira described how the 2012 pilot project was designed in the ANU College of Law. I trained the SCs for ANU CoL back then, the pilot was held, and there was consolidated and refresher training, too, of SCs. Each student of 104 students in the pilot had a recorded interview with a client, and had…
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Julienne Jen: Research into SCs – The Hong Kong University experience
Julienne was presenting on behalf of her and her colleagues, Wilson Chow and Michael Ng. The context of the use of SCs was the Postgrad Certificate in Laws (PCLL) at HKU Faculty of Law, which is skills-based, with students training to be trainee solicitors or pupil barristers in Hong Kong, and which is monitored closely…
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Lucy Evans: the experience of using SCs at Flinders Law School
Before Lucy’s session I gave a brief history of the SCI initiative in my slides ‘The Simulated Client Initiative: A portrait of the outsider as teacher’, and they’re up on the SCI site. Back to Flinders… Lucy described how the SC innovation was carried out at Flinders – based, as Lucy pointed out, on the…
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Centre for Legal Education (CLE) Conference, Nottingham Law School, Notts Trent University, session 1
At the kind behest of Pamela Henderson, my colleague at NLS, I’ve joined the CLE blog as guest speaker and will be liveblogging the conference at that blog and also here. I’m a part-time professor at NLS, and a member of the CLE, which does fine research work in legal education. The conference has speakers…
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Simulated client, final session – ahead of whose curve?
So where do we want to take the SCI from here? That was a key question for us at the final session of the day. It was observed that however successful the method might be demonstrated to be, there will be some staff and some students who simply will not want to engage. That’s understandable…
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BILETA 2017 final thoughts: the redress of legal education
It was a fine conference, well organised by Anabela Susana Sousa Goncalves and her team at the Universidade do Minho. I love Portugal. I was brought up a Catholic, so it seemed perfectly natural to me to put a statue of St Francis holding the infant Jesus above the gantry in the hotel bar – a…
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CLEA day 2, session 2
First up, Alex Steel, UNSW, on the Smart Casual project: ‘Using online modules to build teacher confidence and skills’. Nine modules for adjunct staff development, including Indigenous Peoples and the Law, student engagement, legal problem solving, feedback, reading law, critical thinking, comms and collaboration, legal ethics and wellness in law. Key aspects include appropriate tone (peer…
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Afterthoughts on Legal Education in Crisis
So a massively busy two days. I was planning to sneak off at some point to see U of Chicago’s Laboratory Schools, and pay a quiet visit to the Dewey’s legacies there (he’s been much in my mind, being here, and I reread the late Laurel N. Tanner’s fine account before I came over), but…
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Legal Education Crisis? Workshop: Panel 3
Day two, and first up, John Bliss, ‘Becoming lawyers: mapping professional identity formation in the US and China’. John gave an absorbing account of the reasons why students become certain lawyers, using identity maps – circles, where placing of roles and what the roles were etc, were crucial to understanding identity. Eg relations, particularly familial…
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Legal Education in Crisis? Workshop: Intro & Panel 1
At the behest of Beth Mertz I’m attending a two-day legal education workshop in Chicago – ‘Legal Education in Crisis? Bringing Researchers and Resources Together to Generate New Scientific Insights’. I’ll be live-blogging the workshop. More detail on it and the opening remarks below the fold.