Category: professional education
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MMU Law School inaugural lecture: regulation & shared space
The title is Transforming legal education? The regulatory value of shared space. The question mark queries whether or not a shared space approach does, or at least have the potential to, transform legal education. I’ve never doubted it personally through my career, but I need to persuade you, dear reader and lecture attender. Below are…
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Teaching ≈ Learning ≈ Regulation
At the behest of Dr Paulina Wilson of QUB I recently wrote a short piece for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly series called Reflections on Teaching. Around 5,000 words. Usually it takes me 5K to draw breath, so it was quite a challenge to reflect on 44 years in education, 34 of them in legal…
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Simulated Client workshop summary
The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson once observed that if you wish to understand a culture, study its nurseries. There is a similar principle for the understanding of professions: if you wish to understand why professions develop as they do, study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation. When you do, you will generally…
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Sim client workshop: programme and resources
One of the initiatives I’ve been working on in the last 20 years is the Simulated Client Initiative. I’ve worked with a range of partners to establish SC projects internationally. I’ve also organised international workshops in London (Gray’s Inn), Canberra (ANU College of Law) and Toronto, which were liveblogged in this blog This month, people…
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BILETA 2024: Legal education session 1
Four papers. First up, Nick Scharf from East Anglia U, on an intriguing interdisciplinary topic: ‘Give the Drummer Some: Reflecting on the use of the drum kit to enhance student learning of copyright law’. As he describes it in his abstract ‘The approach outlined here breaks from the traditional question/answer/discussion structure of seminars and allows…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Experiential Learning Conference, HKU Faculty of Law, day 1, am
I’m at this conference at the invitation of Wilson Chow and the conference committee. It’s one of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of HKU’s Faculty of Law. It’s great to be back in HK and meet colleagues and friends in the Faculty, and talk over projects. More of that…