Tag: Birks

  • Pressing problems MLR seminar, final thoughts

    The seminar organisers based the conference on a book of essays edited by Peter Birks entitled Pressing Problems in the Law. Vol 2. What are Law Schools For? and published by OUP in 1996 (hereafter, ‘Birks’). I remember buying it around 1997 or 1998, second-hand, from Voltaire & Rousseau, in Glasgow.  Five years out from…

  • Pressing Problems, second plenary

    We now have Steven Vaughan from the Faculty of Laws, UCL, on ‘The lies we tell ourselves: Problematising the (S)hallow foundations of the core of legal education’. First up is the trot through the QLD, then on data from a project Steven has been working on. Steven started by querying the reasons for the five…