Tag: australian legal education

  • Parallel session 1B – International Perspectives on Wellness for Law

    First up, Liz Lee from ANU College of Law and Rachel Spearing, from the Bar Wellness project and member of staff at Portsmouth, on Wellness in UK legal education and practice: voices of first year law students to members of the Bar.  Liz conducted about 30 interviews on the subject when she recently spent study…

  • WG Hart, session 4

    Avrom’s working us hard…  Fourth session, and Julian Lonbay on What can be learned about legal educational standards from the European dimension.  Given Bologna and Lisbon processes, and the Morgenbesser case (which has increased the fee movement and the concomitant assessment load on Bars and Law Societies), and the newly revised professional qualification Directive (in…

  • APLEC 2012 roundup

    Fine conference, well designed for its participants by the UTS team.  Professional legal ed conferences are different from academic in terms of the quantity & quality of research and discussion arising out of research.  Papers tend to be much more practical, linked to legal practice, obviously, or linked to legal educational practice.  As always there’s…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, second plenaries

    Sally Kift’s keynote presentation gave an overview of academic standards in AU HE — ‘Academic standards: the national context and remifications for legal education’. She outlined, as she said, a highly complex field, a ‘perfect storm’ of regulation for AU HE and PLT in particular.  Her presentation was vintage Kift: hugely informative, delivery at a…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentations 2 & 3

    Next up was Deborah Ankor (again — with all this innovation she’s creating @ Flinders does she ever sleep?), on ‘Using Standardized Clients for assessing interviewing skills’. This was the report on an initial trial using SCs. The context: an LLB/LP incorporating skills throughout the degree (so unusual degree structure) — fairly conventional teaching, in…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentation 1

    In the first of the small group sessions on Saturday, I attended the ‘Addressing Stakeholders Needs’ stream. First up was Helen McGowan, on ‘The Bush lawyer pipeline: service learning and practical legal training in regional Australia’. Legal aid, aboriginal community service and other adjacent services that were RRR — regional, rural and remote [check out the videos…

  • APLEC, Friday pm, plenaries

    Your intrepid blogger ducked out of the next plenary session to sit in the pleasant courtyard of the UTS law school and catch up on postings and email; so for me the Stakeholders’ Panel was next up — ‘How does PLT fair from the other side?’ The Panel consisted of Michael Day, DPP, Vivien Swain, Magistrate,…

  • APLEC, Friday am, presentations, 1 & 2

    In the paper sessions Deborah Ankor gave a very interesting presentation on her work and Lucy Evans’, at Flinders, modestly titled ‘Simulation on a shoestring: or how does one create a virtual experiential space with no more than an ancient learning management system’. There was reference to my work, but Deborah is taking the heuristic forward…

  • APLEC 2012 conference, University of Technology, Sydney

    I’m at the APLEC conference (Australasian Professional Legal Education Council), held this year in UTS, Sydney, having been invited by Maxine Evers to give one of the keynotes at the conference on the Friday am.  Slides for that are over on the Slides page. On the Thursday pm prior to the conference I gave a…