Tag: legal education research

  • Happy anniversary, blog

    Since I seem to be thinking about things past more than present or future at the moment, before this year’s end I want to mark the 20th anniversary of my blog.  I started in 2005, around January, I think, on Blogger.  Felt uneasy with the platform though, so quickly moved to Typepad, which was then…

  • Legal research conference, UNSW, day 1

    I’m in Sydney for the conference on legal research at UNSW, and kindly invited by Alex Steel to give a keynote at it.  Title, not short on polysyllables – Prometheus, Sisyphus and Themis: three rival futures for legal education research.  Slides at the usual places, at Slideshare and at the Slides tab above.  I’ll be…

  • Afterthoughts on Legal Education in Crisis

    So a massively busy two days.  I was planning to sneak off at some point to see U of Chicago’s Laboratory Schools, and pay a quiet visit to the Dewey’s legacies there (he’s been much in my mind, being here, and I reread the late Laurel N. Tanner’s fine account before I came over), but…

  • LETR read, misread, unread

    I’ve been at three LETR-related events the last couple of weeks — the seminar at UCL on Legal Innovation — How Should the Educators Respond,   a SLS/IALS event, The Role of Academics in Legal Education & Training, and a LERN event — After the LETR, what should we be researching and how.  I was speaking…