Category: legal education
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Learning & teaching seminars, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law
I’m a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and I spent last week giving seminars and discussing projects with staff — seminars given to first year LLB students, doctoral students, and JD/LLM students; and to staff, on webcasts, podcasts, multimedia and other digital resources. On the last subject, see…
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SLS Conference, Legal Education, Law Teacher Special Issue session
This was the first session on Day 2 of the SLS Conference Legal Education section, a session devoted to the Special Issue on Learning/Technology, The Law Teacher, vol 50 issue 1 [paywall], that was published earlier this year, edited by me. That issue, comprising six papers and discussed on this blog post, was entitled Learning/Technology because I wanted…
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SLS conference 2016, Legal Education section, plenary
I was asked to give a plenary talk to the SLS Legal Education section. I invited Dirk Rodenburg, Director of Undergraduate and Professional Programs from Queen’s University Law School, Ontario, to join me to talk about his new simulation platform as part of the presentation, and to talk about his unique blending of medical and…
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The provincial, the global and the inner émigré
About a month ago I was out at Murrumbateman, visiting a couple of colleagues. Craig and Skye invited some of us from Legal Workshop out to their fine house for dinner and a performance of Macbeth – in a winery, Shaws. Think Birnam Wood translated to a vineyard. The tiny touring company chose well. Macbeth is…
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50 years of assessment in legal education – liveblog
Am liveblogging the conference as much as I can. Julian and I up first, slides on the Slides tab. Whirlwind tour of past & present on the theme of the title, ‘Of tails and dogs: Standards, standardisation and innovation in assessment’. First up, Craig Newbury-Jones and Nigel Firth, Plymouth U Law School, on ‘Digital assessment for…
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50 years of assessment in legal education
This is a conference hosted by the Association of Law Teachers at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, today, and part of their 50th anniversary celebrations (there’s a 50 Years of Legal Education conference later in the year), which are looking back as well as looking forward to the future(s) of legal education. Maybe it’s…
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Simulated Clients @ Chinese University of Hong Kong
Been travelling recently, so not much posting. To Hong Kong in early December, training Simulated Clients for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, organised by Elsa Kelly. Spent four intensive days on scenario and assessment standardisation, with 10 clients. The sessions were attended by Matthew Cheung and Martin Doris. Martin and I go…
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Convergence and fragmentation
I’m giving a paper today at Melbourne Law School, by kind invitation of Gary Cazalet, title ‘Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, informatics and legal education’. Slides up on the Slides page above. The paper is a version of draft chapter five of a book I’m writing, Genealogies of Legal Education (interim chapter titles in the…
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LETR on regulatory relationships
I was revisiting LETR on regulatory relationship for a paper I was giving here at Denver U Sturm College of Law. A year or so on, how is it looking? The responses of the main regulators were reasonably predictable though the future consequences of their actions are difficult to foresee. But what of the report itself?…
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Educating tomorrow’s legal educators: our lives as sine curves
First, my grateful thanks to the Planning Committee of the ETL Conference, and especially to Rebecca Kourlis and Alli Gerkman for the invitation. I enjoyed it. I’ve been to too many conferences where panels of deans or assorted professors droned on about their institutions, or spouted some mangled reading of the Carnegie Report in support of their…