Tag: legal education
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WG Hart, session 3
First up, Wes Pue, highly engaging session on Professional innovation in three frontier towns: Toronto, 1820, Birmingham, 1860, Winnipeg, 1920. Wes’ paper counters the view that innovation only derives from metropolitan centres. From his abstract: ‘the perspective of professional history from the ‘frontier’ dislocates more conventional histories ‘from the centre’, permitting the opening of enquiries…
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WG Hart, session 2
Nina Fletcher, Law Society of E+W, on Solicitors and the market for legal services: perspectives on change, the future and uncertainty. Stats on the legal market quite interesting update on LETR. There’s been substantial growth in net export of legal services; ‘retail’ work (ie work undertaken on behalf of ordinary citizens) contributes to around 30% of…
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Shared space: regulation, technology and legal education in a global context
Abstract for my BILETA 2014 legal education session below. Slides up on the Slides page of this site: The LETR Report on legal services education and training (LSET), published in June 2013, is the most recent of a series of reports dealing with legal education in England and Wales. Many of these reports do not…
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Equal access to the internet: a human rights analysis
Cathy Easton, Lancaster U. (again) on the above. 80M disabled citizens of the EU and a further 87M EU citizens over 65 who cd benefit from a more accessible internet. Only 39% of EU public sector websites at both a supra-national and domestic level reach an appropriate level of accessibility. Tearing through the stats here,…
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Judge, camera, action
Couldn’t blog the paper entitled Making Schools Responsible for Cyberbullying — UEA connection went down… This session, the last but one legal education paper, is Michael Bromby (MB) — subtitled, Legal education and the regulation of recording and broadcasting proceedings in court. Context was the Judicial Office for Scotland Review, 2013, and administration of Justice…
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After the hype: MOOCs and legal education
Next up, Cathy Easton, Lancaster University, on MOOCs and legal education. Gave an overview of MOOCs, and the infrastructure behind the online product. In the UK, in addition to the US models of Coursera, edx and udacity, there’s Futurelearn. Free of course, but you can get a certificate at a cost. So MOOCs are being…
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Parables, climbing & King Lear
Check out the discussion over at Kris Greave’s PLT Educators Australasia LinkedIn forum on personal opinions in teaching & learning which somehow ended up with theological exegesis, a video of the astonishing Ueli Steck and King Lear in a Kelp Store. Let no one tell you legal education is dull…
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Now we are three: Emerging Legal Education book series
Beth Mertz and I, co-editors of the Emerging Legal Education series, have just signed a renewal of the three-year contract for this Ashgate book series on legal education. Hardly seems like three years since we signed the first, with Caroline Maughan as the third editor (Caroline has now retired from her post at UWE, and…
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Research skills and the researchers of tomorrow
More on research skills, this time on the wider context from Jisc. Their report, out in 2012, revealed the serious problems and the huge potential of the digital shift. Over a project span of three years Researchers of Tomorrow analysed the working practices of around 17,000 doctoral students born between 1982 & 1994, the so-called Gen…
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LETR and legal education research infrastructure
The LERN event earlier this month, part of which I summarised here, picked up on the LETR call for more and better research into legal education. The LETR report was tasked to be evidence-based, and thus to inform the second phase of LETR which we are now in. As we pointed out, though, the literature needs…