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Recently…
Long time no blog! I'm thinking of moving platform, and about to start that soon (the task of shifting old posts is non-trivial, as I've discovered), but meantime there are so many interesting happening. I've been on research leave since February, and the routine has been scribbling scribbling (digitally) in my wee room at home,…
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William Twining: IALS Workshop in his honour
Gave a paper yesterday at IALS, U. of London. It was given in a workshop held in honour of William Twining, one of the finest legal educationalists we have in these isles. I first came across his work after my two years of a postgrad LLB degree at Glasgow University, 1990-92.
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‘Not just another gabfest’
Elizabeth Chambless's phrase, her ambition for the conference, and it summed it up. So many legal ed conferences end up as gabfests. Part of the intellectual buzz of legal education, for me at any rate, is the practical buzz of doing, planning, executing great ideas that are part of the great tradition of innovation in…
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Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Final Plenary session
Mitt Regan led the session discussion on technology — summarised below. Four summaries: Professional Development Proposals Principles One size doesn't fit all law schools There are a different set of competencies that might predict law student abilities There are different and broader sets of skills that need to be articulated There is a global…
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Lunch time session: Q & A with Laura Taylor
Lunch time Laura Taylor, General Counsel, Chlorox. Q & A session with David Wilkins. David began by asking her what students lacked when they started with her dept. She replied: Project Management Leadership International business experience. Flexibility David — global dimension: you must have global competences today if you want to be a leader……
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Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Proposals for reform Professional Development Proposals
Good introduction by Elizabeth Chambless — feasibility, impact? These were defined as essential for the success of the proposals. Not all proposals presented are summarised below. All of them are interesting, though, and can be found on the NYLS web site here.
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Overheard at the conference…
If the Apostles had Facebook pages, Christianity would never have got off the ground.
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Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – SCs + SIMPLE
John Garvey (U of New Hampshire) and I present on our joint project to develop a new form of sim using SCs and SIMPLE (slides). If you want to follow up the discussions, please feel free to post comments here…
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Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 3 & 4
Session 3 focused on the view from regulators — see the conference page at NYLS for a list of those taking part. Stephen Zack, ABA President, was useful on the dilemmas faced by regulators. But yr intrepid correspondent was beginning to pall at a full day of panel sessions, and excused himself from half of…
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Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education: Chris Kenny Keynote
Keynote by CEO of the Legal Services Board. Good to see him at this conference because, as David Wilkins pointed out in introducing him, his organisation is taking seriously the issues also facing the ABA. More below the fold, adapted from his slides.
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Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 1 & 2
In the first panel session of the conference (Global Perspectives on Legal Education), interesting though rather general presentations. Daniel Foote gave a comprehensive, detailed portrait of reform failure in Japan, where in spite of efforts to the contrary, the Bar Exam is being treated as a strait gateway by entrenched interests in the legal profession…
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Langdell & book production — happy accident?
Oliver Goodenough’s comment about books and the Langdellian revolution stuck in my mind. A key issue is whether the technology of book production stimulated the revolution, or whether it was simply co-opted by legal academics as a useful technology and had no impact upon the dissemination of the method.