Category: legal education
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NTU Centre for Legal Education conference: session 2, LETR discussion
Second session — I’m presenting on this so it’ll be short… Jane Ching opened the session, then the three of us talked to the slides, then there was an activity with coloured paper, etc — legal kindergarten in action! I talked about the literature review largely, and where the project is at the moment. Jane…
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NTU Centre for Legal Education conference: session 1, visions of legal education
I’m liveblogging the Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education launch conference. Directors of the Centre are Becky Huxley-Binns, Jane Ching, my colleague on the LETR project, and Andrea Nollent, who introduced the event and Baroness Deech, who gave the first address. The session was called Visions of Legal Education. Ruth pointed out how critical…
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Collaboration & convergence
I shouldn’t really be, but I’m always surprised by how little inter-institutional collaboration takes place in legal education. Here’s an example of how valuable it can be not just for the partners, but for students and regulators too.
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Plenary: Significant Developments Affecting the Regulation of Lawyers
Important plenary, with Catherine Carpenter, Gerald VandeWalle and Hulett (Bucky) Askew. First up, Catherine Carpenter. Standards Review Committee’s Comprehensive Review has been ongoing for over three years now. She started with learning outcomes — something new to American law schools, she said. The focus on outputs, not inputs, was essential. And the Bar Exam as…
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BILETA Conference, Legal Education 3
I’m chairing AND presenting at this session on our iPad project, iLEGALL, so reeeally scrappy. But here goes. I’ll post my slides later onto this site. I was introducing mobile learning generally. Jonathan and Rebecca Mitchell were up next, talking about the pluses and minuses of student use of the iPad. Slides will be up…
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BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote
Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’ Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…? and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s). His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…
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LETR draft literature review now available
We’ve just made public the draft version of the literature review for the Legal Education & Training Review — see the Literature Review page on the LETR project website. More information below the fold.
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Tasks and conversations
Good post over on the Best Practices blog, Before you ban – empirical data on student laptop use, blogged by Kevin Ramakrishna, from Prof Kim Novak Morse’s doctoral dissertation (how refreshing to see someone’s area of expertise described as ‘legal writing’). The laptop use is of course in-class (I guess what we’d call, in the…
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Academic education, professional education & technology
I contributed a chapter to a book just out, edited by Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, entitled Educating the Digital Lawyer (New Providence, NJ, Matthew Bender, 2012). You can access an EPUB ebook version of the book free of charge (if you can’t access EPUBs, see discussion here). It’s blogged by Stephanie Kimbro here and over…
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Gloss & (we)blink
Idle thought for a seminar: describe glossed literature, show examples + gloss tools. Issue folio or better still A1 sized sheets, and ask folk to begin to design textura and gloss, in small groups. Then the pages are passed around, and others add to the glosses. Go online: do the same with a wiki: compare…
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OSTE
Having been involved in the construction of an OSCE for the SRA’s new QLTS, I’m following the literature in medical education quite closely. Came across a useful meta-review on a twist to the OSCE — the OSTE: Objective Structured Teaching Encounter. Reference below the fold, with abstract.