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  • Parallel session 1

    I attended a session on on ‘Embedding internationalisation, employability and inclusive education through graduate attributes: a case study of ‘A Global Outlook (David Killick, Laura Dean, Manchester Met U).  Came in late to an odd dialogue between the speakers, but the points thereafter made about how it was being embedded were interesting; and I liked…

  • HEA conference 2012, Manchester

    Liveblogging the HEA conference, day 1.  Martin Bean, VC of the OU, giving the keynote.  Gave a review of the problems of information overload, via Vannevar Bush and Denis Diderot.   Tech in HE is not about hard and software, it’s about people and process which, according to him, is a point that’s always been…

  • LawTechCamp, London

    Liveblogging the above unconference, just finished my first Pecha Kucha at LawTechCamp — 20 slides, automatic 6sec per slide, new discipline for me, used to taking 5,000 words to draw breath, pretty brutal.  But you got to try it — the cool pecha-dudes did it without looking at their slides, and timed themselves perfectly.  Clearly I’ve…

  • 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…

  • HKU & sims

    A week of meetings put together by the super-organized Wilson Chow — seminars, individual meetings with staff about technology and law teaching.  Sims like those in SIMPLE don’t just drop into conventional teaching habits.  They change those habits, and student habits too.  In that sense they’re disruptive of the habitat of learning and teaching, the…

  • 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.

  • NCBE Conference reflections: the hot and the cool

    First of all, a big thanks to Erica Moeser for the invitation to speak, and to Deb Martin & colleagues for all their helpful admin support.  Having just finished hosting the BILETA conference it’s fresh in my mind just how complex & time-consuming conference design & admin is. This conference has been so instructive for…

  • NCBE Conference: final session

    Final session I attended was a discussion session for 0-2 years Bar members and staff, in order to hear the basic issues being raised.  Key points: Administration issues.  Training of proctors — what we’d call exam invigilators (teachers noted as excellent proctors), and monitoring of proctor performance. Grading Bar exams — variability in marking.  One…

  • NCBE Conference: In the Trenches: Character and Fitness Issues

    Barbara D’Aquila, practitioner and member of the Minnesota Board of Law Examiners. In Minnesota Rule 5 spelled out eligibility requirements — honesty, good judgment, lawful, respectful conduct, etc.  Went at a fair pace so cdn’t really take notes.  Session was interactive: six scenarios, participants debated what they’d do, then Barbara & Emily Eschweiler (assistant director…