Category: legal education

  • Teaching Legal Ethics & Developing Professional Judgment

    This is a session at ANU College of Law that I’m attending & liveblogging — see here for full details.  It was organised by Tony Foley & colleagues, and the keynote speaker is Judith Wegner from North Carolina, who in legal educational circles needs no introduction,  talking on ‘Developing Professional Judgment in Future Lawyers —…

  • Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education

    I’ve accepted a position as a part-time professor in Nottingham Law School, starting this month, and concurrent with my position at ANU.  I’ll be working on research and publication projects with staff in the Centre for Legal Education (CLE) where there’s synergy with the projects that I’ll be setting up  in the Centre at ANU,…

  • European Journal of Law & Technology: BILETA special edition

    The latest issue of EJLT is out, and it’s a special edition, edited by Sefton Bloxham and me, consisting of papers from the 2012 BILETA (British & Irish Law Education Technology Association) legal education stream.  The conference was liveblogged on this blog.  Surprisingly, and against the run of recent conferences, there was a surge of…

  • Modestly big data for legal education

    The Human Face of Big Data has been splashed across screens & newsprint the last few days — see The Guardian’s excellent Datablog article, and Scientific American for summaries of what it’s about.  According to Rick Smolens, one of the two founders, it will last for two months, asks respondents 60 questions via a mobile…

  • Parallel session 2

    I attended Prof Stuart Bell (York U) and Dr Rachel Field, (Queensland U of Technology) on regulation and innovation at the academic stage. Stuart began by making the point that there was little on research on effectiveness of professional regulation in the undergraduate degree, one way or the other.  HE regulation has more of an…

  • LETR Symposium, day 2, keynote 2

    Second keynote, Wes Pue, from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.  Legal historian primarily, but with a huge knowledge and interest in legal education.  He described himself as raised in a British dominion, proud of his Canadian heritage, an outsider/insider, which defined his later research and views.  Studied at Oxford, and noted the variety…

  • Red LETR day… LETR Symposium, day 1

    Liveblogging the LETR Symposium at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester.  We (the research group, but especially Julian) have been working on this two-day event for the past six months or so with the SRA and others, so great that it’s finally rolling.  More information on the programme here.  The event was introduced by our Steering Panel…

  • Same strokes for different folks: making best use of existing digital systems

    Next up, Sarah Chesney (Independent) and Melissa Shaw, U of Cumbria on the story of introducing personal learning and performance and professional development review (PPDR) at the U of Cumbria (UC).  Session wandered a bit, and so did yr notetaker, and there was another staged dialogue (just doesn’t work for me); but this was about…

  • LawTechCamp, London

    Liveblogging the above unconference, just finished my first Pecha Kucha at LawTechCamp — 20 slides, automatic 6sec per slide, new discipline for me, used to taking 5,000 words to draw breath, pretty brutal.  But you got to try it — the cool pecha-dudes did it without looking at their slides, and timed themselves perfectly.  Clearly I’ve…

  • Assessment of professional legal education

    Currently presenting at a conference organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I was invited by Agusti Cerillo Martinez, the Director of the Law & Political Science Dept to speak on simulation and legal education; and I’ve focused on issues of the assessment of professional education.  I’m interested in this not least because of the…

  • Australian National University, Legal Workshop

    I returned recently from spending seven days at the College of Law in the Australian National University in Canberra, part of my duties as Adjunct Professor there.  ‘Duties’ is exactly the wrong word.  It’s a real pleasure to be working, planning and implementing innovative legal education with such a dedicated bunch of staff, both in…

  • Hong Kong U Faculty of Law: virtual & f2f sims

    I’m in Hong Kong U Faculty of Law, on an exchange scheme with Wilson Chow of the Law Faculty, funded by HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme.  Wilson has already visited the UK, and conducted a survey of students using SIMPLE at Strathclyde, Northumbria and Glamorgan.  He presented his results at the BILETA conference, and  will…