Category: professional education

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Liveblogging

    Liveblogging an event is basically where you do just that — blog it as it happens.  Nice post, via Stephen Downes’ Oldaily, from Matt Thompson over at Poynter, on how to do it and why he likes doing it.  Stephen summarises it well — – a liveblog forces you to genuinely pay attention – it…

  • Sirious stuff

    I see Siri’s in the news again — there’s now a proxy available.  An earlier article commented on the use of Siri, saying he or she (she from now on) mostly has been quizzed on her relationship with Hal 9000 (she won’t discuss it), asked for stories (she has one to tell, if pushed) and deluged with requests for illegal…

  • Standardized clients @ ANU Legal Workshop

    Still catching up on AU activities, before the plane later today flies me back to northern winter.  As Adjunct Prof at ANU I spent the earlier part of the week training Standardized Clients at ANU’s Legal Workshop, and simultaneously training the staff under Margie Rowe’s capable direction who will take on the future training.  Our…