Tag: legal education

  • NTU Centre for Legal Education conference: session 2, LETR discussion

    Second session — I’m presenting on this so it’ll be short…  Jane Ching opened the session, then the three of us talked to the slides, then there was an activity with coloured paper, etc — legal kindergarten in action!  I talked about the literature review largely, and where the project is at the moment.  Jane…

  • NTU Centre for Legal Education conference: session 1, visions of legal education

    I’m liveblogging the Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education launch conference.  Directors of the Centre are Becky Huxley-Binns, Jane Ching, my colleague on the LETR project, and Andrea Nollent, who introduced the event and Baroness Deech, who gave the first address.  The session was called Visions of Legal Education.  Ruth pointed out how critical…

  • Collaboration & convergence

    I shouldn’t really be, but I’m always surprised by how little inter-institutional collaboration takes place in legal education.  Here’s an example of how valuable it can be not just for the partners, but for students and regulators too.

  • Plenary: Candour in Disclosing Character and Fitness Issues

    The full title of the first speaker’s session is ‘Trends in Character and Fitness from the perspective of a Seasoned Law School Administrator’ — Ann Lukingbeal, from Cornell — Asst Dean, Admin.  She pointed out that students are sanitizing their applications to law school, ie concealing negative information.  eg at Cornell the ‘Have you ever…

  • Plenary: Significant Developments Affecting the Regulation of Lawyers

    Important plenary, with Catherine Carpenter, Gerald VandeWalle and Hulett (Bucky) Askew. First up, Catherine Carpenter.  Standards Review Committee’s Comprehensive Review  has been ongoing for over three years now.  She started with learning outcomes — something new to American law schools, she said.  The focus on outputs, not inputs, was essential.  And the Bar Exam as…

  • BILETA Conference loose ends & reflections

    Loose ends first. Abhilash are aware that the BILETA postgraduate prize wasn’t awarded this year at the conference dinner.  We’re putting together a proposal for the postgrads who submitted papers (the quality of which impressed quite a few folk), and that will be up on the social networking site early next week. There will be…

  • BILETA Conference: thanks

    Too early for reflections, but never too early for thanks…  So thanks to — My co-chair Abhilash Nair: totally committed, wonderful eye for detail, kept calm… The Admin/Tech Team: Maureen Cooke & Anne Conway (powered through the admin, great sense of how to put a conference together, and how to make participants feel welcome), Ian…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education, 5

    Sandy Meredith on ‘A critical look at using referencing software – EndNote Refworks & Zotero – with the OSCOLA style OR does technology inhibit or enhance the writing skills of doctoral students? What do we want from referencing software?  organized storage of data, dowload of reference data from dbases, input of reference data to footnotes…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education 4

    First up, My First Million presentation by U of Herfordshire team.  Approach used to ‘develop entrepreneurial skills in law students to meet work-based learning objectives of the SRA’.  Quite a lot of words in that title I tend to be sceptical about, but as much as one can gather in 20 mins or so, it…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education 3

    I’m chairing AND presenting at this session on our iPad project, iLEGALL, so reeeally scrappy.  But here goes.  I’ll post my slides later onto this site.  I was introducing mobile learning generally. Jonathan and Rebecca Mitchell were up next, talking about the  pluses and minuses of student use of the iPad.  Slides will be up…

  • BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote

    Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’  Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…?  and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s).  His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…

  • BILETA Conference Legal Education 2

    Second session, and I’m chairing so this will be a bit scrappy.  First up, Emily Allbone, law librarian at City U, talking about her excellent Lawbore project.  Originally a gateway project created by Emily, it’s now much much more.  She has topic guides, a hub, the Future Lawyer blog, and Learnmore.  The last is a…