Tag: ethics

  • 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…

  • CLE15 presents: Becky Huxley-Binns (PH)

    Full Title:  A threshold concept of undergraduate law and ethics For those of you who don’t know Becky (that will be one person at most, then), she is currently at the University of Law and is also Chair of the QAA Law Subject Benchmark Review Panel 2014-15, UK. Becky is here to explain the work…

  • ILEC 2014, Session 7

    Third and final day of ILEC.  I’m attending a session on Ethics Culture.  First up, Marnie Prasad and Mary-Rose Russell, from Auckland University of Technology Law School, on the ‘Professional and ethical challenges for criminal lawyers in the changing environment of legal representation: a New Zealand perspective’.  They gave an engaging review of the structure…

  • ILEC 20214, Session 4

    Session 2 I was presenting on a version of The Wrong Story — slides on the Slides page, on the tab above.  Also on the panel were Victoria Rees, regulator, BC Canada, and Adrian Evans.  Had to take time to answer stuff coming in on email, but here we are at 4B, ‘Responding to the…

  • Dealing with new technologies in higher education: the analogy of road design

    I guess that, following on from my last rather downbeat posting of 2009, this is a much more upbeat appraisal of what technologies do to/for us.  I cycle pretty regularly to work, and on a variety of bikes — mountain bike, recumbent trike, folder, occasionally my trusty Mercian roadster.  Apart from the occasional bout of…