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  • Disintermediation in law schools

    Now in Canberra, at the National Law Reform Conference being held in ANU, 14-15 April.  Some great papers.  This morning I heard my colleague Vivien Holmes on her work on legal ethics, and embedding it within legal education; Justine Rogers on teamwork, presenting both sides of the debate, massively referenced, and raising key issues about the…

  • Learning / Technology in Legal Education: Special Issue of The Law Teacher

    The first 2016 issue of The Law Teacher is now out. It’s a Special Issue on legal education and technology, guest-edited by me, with an Editorial and six articles on the past, present and future use of technology in law schools.

  • Supports Open Access

    All three of my regular readers will know this blog’s commitment Open Access, not just in education (OER), not just in collaboration between institutions, but in Open Access to research as well.  Lingua is one of the foremost journals in the Linguistics community, and published by Elsevier.  Laughably, the website sports the label Supports Open Access.  The…

  • The experiential photograph

    A couple of folk have asked about the banner photos.  The one above, an autumn photo, was taken at the weekend on the Cuillins, Skye, near the cloud line, from the shoulder of Sron na Ciche, on our way to climb Sgurr Dearg and An Stac (in English, the rather grandiosely-named Inaccessible Pinnacle).  You’re looking at…

  • Digital Research Literacies, part 2

    ‘Literacies’ might suggest a basic set of competencies, one that’s highly teleological, but I mean the very opposite of it — a complex unbounded, uncertain collection of capabilities, awarenesses and moral positions.  Actually that’s really what literacy is in any case — a hugely complex process.  As an adult education tutor many years ago I…

  • Digital research literacies

    Before I head off back to Scotland, am giving a session to ANU College of Law staff on digital research literacies.  I’ve given it in various forms in various places (twice at IALS), but it’s never the same session.  What’s fascinating for me is to watch how the ERA process is beginning to shape around…

  • Post-LETR, what’s the regulatory position on legal education in E+W?

    In her recent visit to Australian law schools Jane Ching of Nottingham Law School, a co-author of LETR, spent a week as a Visitor at ANU College of Law, and with PEARL staff in particular.  We discussed how Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education could work closely with PEARL and with other legal educational…

  • Narratives and discourse communities

    Last week by kind permission of Joshua Neoh I gave a session on Scots law and culture in his Law and Humanities course at ANU  – taking the shape of the rest of the course, it consisted of a one-hour lecture, followed by around 90 mins discussion and questions.  Slides over on Slideshare, and up…

  • CLE conference wrap-up

    During the final session just blogged by Pamela, Pat Leighton mentioned this was a thought-provoking conference, and she’s right.  There was theory, but there was also a care for  intelligent practice, and this contributed to the tone.  I’ve been to conferences that were edgier, others that were abrasively critical, and some that were distant and…

  • CLE15: Reflections (PH)

    Our CLE 2015 Conference is drawing to a close.  My co-blogger, Paul, will have the honour of posting our final blog entry, so watch out for that.  In the meantime, we have Prof. Patricia Leighton, co-director of LERN UK, bringing formal proceedings to a graceful close.  LERN has done a huge amount of work in…

  • Access to justice – making it come alive and a reality for students and enabling engaged future practitioners (PM)

    Liz Curran next, from ANU.  She teaches on the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice there, which has simulations, working in teams, etc.  She still works in legal practice, and publishes widely on integrated service delivery, a2j, ethics, clinical legal education and human rights. She defined the differences between clinics and practical legal education placement programmes. …

  • CLE15: The Role of Legal Clinics in Access to Justice in Turkish Legal Education

    Presented by Kilinc Ayse and Akkus Ezgi Fulya from Afyon Kocatepe University in Turkey. Kilinc and Akkus focused on how they are helping their students to develop the skills they will need to support their future clients in accessing the justice system.  In particular, they discussed: the right of access to justice as a legal…