Tag: legal education

  • 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…

  • Session 6: Legal education

    Missed the plenary — one of the dangers of having a conference in your workplace. This morning, another three legal education streams to choose from — riches!  I’m in a session with Michael McShane presenting on ‘Should law schools focus on the discipline or the profession of law?’

  • ALTA Conference, plenary 1

    I’m live blogging the ALTA conference, held this year at ANU College of Law.  The theme of the conference invites us to explore the idea of law teachers as gatekeepers.  First plenary is Carrie Menkel-Meadow, who started by talking about gatecrashing or rather gate-opening as characterising her career.  Question:  are we teaching sovereignty or humanity?  What is…

  • LETR now public

    As of midday today, the Legal Education & Training Review has gone public.  More comment later.  See the Executive Summary for headline findings and recommendations; and the website contains the full Report in HTML and PDF formats (mobi & epub formats to follow), briefing papers, discussion papers, open submissions data, the literature review and a…

  • Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education

    I’ve accepted a position as a part-time professor in Nottingham Law School, starting this month, and concurrent with my position at ANU.  I’ll be working on research and publication projects with staff in the Centre for Legal Education (CLE) where there’s synergy with the projects that I’ll be setting up  in the Centre at ANU,…

  • Australian National University

    Apologies to readers of this blog for my recent silence — LETR has been soaking up all available waking hours.  Other matters too: last week I resigned from Northumbria Law School.  I have accepted a full-time professorial post at the Australian National University’s College of Law, and will be starting there in March 2013.

  • Modestly big data for legal education

    The Human Face of Big Data has been splashed across screens & newsprint the last few days — see The Guardian’s excellent Datablog article, and Scientific American for summaries of what it’s about.  According to Rick Smolens, one of the two founders, it will last for two months, asks respondents 60 questions via a mobile…

  • LETR Symposium, day 2, keynote 2

    Second keynote, Wes Pue, from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.  Legal historian primarily, but with a huge knowledge and interest in legal education.  He described himself as raised in a British dominion, proud of his Canadian heritage, an outsider/insider, which defined his later research and views.  Studied at Oxford, and noted the variety…

  • Red LETR day… LETR Symposium, day 1

    Liveblogging the LETR Symposium at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester.  We (the research group, but especially Julian) have been working on this two-day event for the past six months or so with the SRA and others, so great that it’s finally rolling.  More information on the programme here.  The event was introduced by our Steering Panel…

  • Same strokes for different folks: making best use of existing digital systems

    Next up, Sarah Chesney (Independent) and Melissa Shaw, U of Cumbria on the story of introducing personal learning and performance and professional development review (PPDR) at the U of Cumbria (UC).  Session wandered a bit, and so did yr notetaker, and there was another staged dialogue (just doesn’t work for me); but this was about…

  • Assessment of professional legal education

    Currently presenting at a conference organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I was invited by Agusti Cerillo Martinez, the Director of the Law & Political Science Dept to speak on simulation and legal education; and I’ve focused on issues of the assessment of professional education.  I’m interested in this not least because of the…

  • Australian National University, Legal Workshop

    I returned recently from spending seven days at the College of Law in the Australian National University in Canberra, part of my duties as Adjunct Professor there.  ‘Duties’ is exactly the wrong word.  It’s a real pleasure to be working, planning and implementing innovative legal education with such a dedicated bunch of staff, both in…