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CLEA, day 2 session 1
Well, this is the longest live blogging session ever — conference is well finished, but I thought that I’d get these impressions together to complete my views of papers at the conference. First up, Anne Wesemann, The Open University, on ‘The significance of EU law for the future commonwealth lawyer’. Anne started with an exploration…
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CLEA day 1, session 2
I had to miss a few papers for meetings. I caught most of Jenny Chan’s paper (Jenny is a PhD student at Chinese U of HK – I know her from working with staff and students there) on ‘Collaborative and co-operative learning in legal education – the case of Hong Kong’. Collab. vs Coop models —…
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Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) conference, Melbourne 2017, session 1
I’m attending the CLEA conference, and giving a paper with Julian Webb (slides up on the Slides tab above). Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country by David Barker, who also presented a paper giving a general summary of the history of Australian law schools from 1960 onwards. In their paper Claire Carroll and Brad Jessup examined…
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Learning/technology in legal education – slideset links
Links to the complete slideset here: Paul Maharg, Introduction Craig Collins, ‘Story interface and strategic design for new law curricula‘ Kristoffer Greaves, ‘Computer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media for teachers and students in legal education‘ Scott Chamberlain, ‘Affordable software simulations for teaching legal practice‘. Paul Maharg, ‘Disintermediation‘.
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Learning/Technology Workshop, PEARL, ANU College of Law
Today we’ve got a session at ANU College of Law PEARL centre, entitled Learning/Technology in Legal Education. The session is another version of the Society of Legal Scholars session held last year in St Catherine’s College, Oxford; but with two new speakers — Kristoffer Greaves, who wrote one of the articles in the original special…
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Legal Education in Crisis? Workshop, Panel 5
Panel 5 was a Roundtable: Research Groups on Legal Education over a working lunch. Beth Mertz was working us hard… Present was the Association of American Law Schools (Jeff Allum, Pablo Molina). Pablo introduced the services and media of AALS, including the Journal of Legal Education. Jeff introduced the Before the JD project. Next, the…
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Legal Education Crisis? Workshop: Panel 3
Day two, and first up, John Bliss, ‘Becoming lawyers: mapping professional identity formation in the US and China’. John gave an absorbing account of the reasons why students become certain lawyers, using identity maps – circles, where placing of roles and what the roles were etc, were crucial to understanding identity. Eg relations, particularly familial…
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Badges – who do we trust, and why?
I’ve been interested in badges for a while now, and impressed with what the good folks over at Mozilla have been doing to create open badges. There’s a badge kit, discussed here, and you can carry your badges around in your backpack. Cool stuff.
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In their spare time
Saw this recently on Legal Futures, one of my favourite online sources of professional legal news in E+W: Law students build app aimed at helping crime victims My eye was caught by this sentence: Mr Bull, LawBot’s founder and managing director, who is German and speaks six languages, wrote the software. So just to slow…
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Simulation – emerging from the shadows
Roger Smith, who blogs at Law Technology and Access to Justice, invited me to contribute a post on use of digital legal education & sims – so I sketched out some context to Gina Alexandris’ earlier description a week or so ago on his blog of the use of sims in Ontario’s experimental Legal Practice…