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  • CLE15: Ethics in Action (PH)

    Full Title – Ethics in Action: Two PBL workshop sessions demonstrating the innovative way legal education can be delivered to enhance students’ consideration of access to justice issues. Our speaker is Jenny Gibbons who is a teaching fellow at York Law School, where guided-discovery PBL (as opposed to open-discovery) is the standard approach across their…

  • Day 2: Developing holistic legal professional identity through clinical legal education (PM)

    Deborah Ankor, Tania Leiman and Lucy Evans from Flinders Law School, South Australia.  They are discussing Flinders’ innovative First Year Clinic Placement (FYCP), which is designed to allow first year students early exposure to clinical experience and to the social justice ethos of a legal advice clinic.  The Legal Advice Clinic provides advice by interns,…

  • CLE15: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (PH)

    No, this is not a review of the day’s events, but the title of Prof. Janine Griffiths-Baker’s inaugural lecture. Full title:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Lawyers in Film and Fiction. Janine is Dean of the Law School, here at Nottingham Law School.  She is just being officially introduced by Prof. David Burdette. …

  • The use of university law clinics for legal reform

    Final presentation in this session, Chris Gallavin and Henry Holderness, U of Canterbury Law School, NZ.  They are talking about integrating a structured law reform programme into a university clinical legal studies programme, what they were trying to achieve and the results so far.  He described the effects of the recent earthquake on university study…

  • CLE15: Building a foundation for access to justice: unlocking the 1st year curriculum (PH)

    Dr Liz Hefferman, associate professor at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland is now talking to us and I’ve just scored my first handout of the day. Liz wants to talk about the re-design of the curriculum Foundations of Law course (used to be known as the Irish Legal System).  She identifies access to justice as something…

  • CLE15: Suppose the class began the day the case walked in the door (PH)

    Jennifer E Spreng from Arizona Summit Law School, USA.   Key point: the way we learn is inherently integrated, so we have to reflect this in the way we teach. I am being asked to imagine it’s my first day at law school and the tutor has told me a new client, Lee Taylor, is…

  • From agent to attorney: a niche profession and a trajectory for access for specialist justice

    We’re being worked hard — straight into the last session.  Jane Jarman up first in this parallel session, on the above topic, Trade Mark attorneys (TMAs).  It’s all about beer she says, Bass in England, with Lowenbrau and Stella (did I see her say 1366?) being the earliest know.  TMAs were formed 1934.  They (and…

  • CLE15: Keynote session by Simao Paxi-Cato

    Simao is speaking about The Role of Legal Education, Regulation and Government in Protecting Access to Justice.  He has opted to avoid Death by Powerpoint on the basis that ‘death works very well on its own’.   It’s a testament to the inability of lawyers to agree on anything, that our programme of presentations does…

  • Liveblogging

    M’ learned colleague Pamela Henderson is liveblogging the keynote we’re all attending.  It’s bliss — she’s busy typing away, I can lean back and listen and otherwise enjoy it.  The future of liveblogging is definitely TeamLiveblogging…  Meanwhile, here are Maharg’s Basic Rules for Liveblogging: PREPARATION Make sure the room has wireless connectivity Sit beside a power…

  • Developing oral skills in undergraduate students to enhance access to justice (PM)

    Pamela Henderson and Jo Boylan-Kemp on the above.  Why do oral skills matter?  Because of the arenas of client communication, interviewing, negotiation and mediation, mooting and advocacy.  At Notts Law School, the skills are developed in SCALE-UP modules, eg English Legal Method, Crime, etc from first to final year.  Jo described a student-led pedagogy, where skills…

  • CLE15: Paul Maharg falls victim to live blogging

    Full Title – Well being and learning: What legal educators and regulators can learn from progressive primary education.   Paul is asking:  How do we integrate in law school what is happening in the wider educational sphere?  How have law schools come to be as they are, educationally?  How have we been socialised into doing…

  • Experiential learning in preparing lawyers to encounter corruption (PM)

    Next up, Nigel Duncan and Sally Hughes, City Law School, on corruption, and particularly in the field of corporate work.  Their work goes to the core of legal ethics.  Has corruption gone mainstream?  The 2008 financial crash exposed systemic corruption within major banks and financial services corporations — ‘too big to fail’.  Sally and Nigel…