Tag: legal education
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BILETA Conference, Legal Education 1
Live-blogging of our conference has begun! Dean Kerrigan of NU Law School opened the conference — Gavin Sutter is our new Chair and we’ll be breaking out into small groups. I’m going to join the legal education session for most of the day. Sefton Bloxham is in the Chair, and announced that HEA is offering…
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BILETA2012: conference essay
‘Too many laws, too few examples’. Our conference theme is a quotation from the French revolutionary, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. It goes to the heart of a long debate about regulation – how best to regulate human activities, and inspire good conduct. Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words…
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LETR draft literature review now available
We’ve just made public the draft version of the literature review for the Legal Education & Training Review — see the Literature Review page on the LETR project website. More information below the fold.
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Academic education, professional education & technology
I contributed a chapter to a book just out, edited by Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, entitled Educating the Digital Lawyer (New Providence, NJ, Matthew Bender, 2012). You can access an EPUB ebook version of the book free of charge (if you can’t access EPUBs, see discussion here). It’s blogged by Stephanie Kimbro here and over…
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Gloss & (we)blink
Idle thought for a seminar: describe glossed literature, show examples + gloss tools. Issue folio or better still A1 sized sheets, and ask folk to begin to design textura and gloss, in small groups. Then the pages are passed around, and others add to the glosses. Go online: do the same with a wiki: compare…
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Sea-change
Happy New Year to all readers! My article, Sea-change, was published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession, in a number dedicated to William Twining (seminar held in his honour was blogged here). When I got down to writing the article, though, I found myself writing about something rather different from the seminar presentation, though…
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Liveblogging
Liveblogging an event is basically where you do just that — blog it as it happens. Nice post, via Stephen Downes’ Oldaily, from Matt Thompson over at Poynter, on how to do it and why he likes doing it. Stephen summarises it well — – a liveblog forces you to genuinely pay attention – it…
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Sirious stuff
I see Siri’s in the news again — there’s now a proxy available. An earlier article commented on the use of Siri, saying he or she (she from now on) mostly has been quizzed on her relationship with Hal 9000 (she won’t discuss it), asked for stories (she has one to tell, if pushed) and deluged with requests for illegal…
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Interpretation, narrative, sim learning
You know how it is: you talk about things at a seminar or workshop, and then you rehearse it afterwards, the things you should have said, directions you might have taken but didn’t. One of the things I should have talked about in the optional APLEC workshop, if there had been time, was the power…
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APLEC 2012 roundup
Fine conference, well designed for its participants by the UTS team. Professional legal ed conferences are different from academic in terms of the quantity & quality of research and discussion arising out of research. Papers tend to be much more practical, linked to legal practice, obviously, or linked to legal educational practice. As always there’s…
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APLEC, Saturday am, second plenaries
Sally Kift’s keynote presentation gave an overview of academic standards in AU HE — ‘Academic standards: the national context and remifications for legal education’. She outlined, as she said, a highly complex field, a ‘perfect storm’ of regulation for AU HE and PLT in particular. Her presentation was vintage Kift: hugely informative, delivery at a…