Tag: legal education

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentations 2 & 3

    Next up was Deborah Ankor (again — with all this innovation she’s creating @ Flinders does she ever sleep?), on ‘Using Standardized Clients for assessing interviewing skills’. This was the report on an initial trial using SCs. The context: an LLB/LP incorporating skills throughout the degree (so unusual degree structure) — fairly conventional teaching, in…

  • APLEC, Saturday am, presentation 1

    In the first of the small group sessions on Saturday, I attended the ‘Addressing Stakeholders Needs’ stream. First up was Helen McGowan, on ‘The Bush lawyer pipeline: service learning and practical legal training in regional Australia’. Legal aid, aboriginal community service and other adjacent services that were RRR — regional, rural and remote [check out the videos…

  • APLEC, Friday pm, plenaries

    Your intrepid blogger ducked out of the next plenary session to sit in the pleasant courtyard of the UTS law school and catch up on postings and email; so for me the Stakeholders’ Panel was next up — ‘How does PLT fair from the other side?’ The Panel consisted of Michael Day, DPP, Vivien Swain, Magistrate,…

  • APLEC, Friday am, presentations, 1 & 2

    In the paper sessions Deborah Ankor gave a very interesting presentation on her work and Lucy Evans’, at Flinders, modestly titled ‘Simulation on a shoestring: or how does one create a virtual experiential space with no more than an ancient learning management system’. There was reference to my work, but Deborah is taking the heuristic forward…

  • APLEC 2012 conference, University of Technology, Sydney

    I’m at the APLEC conference (Australasian Professional Legal Education Council), held this year in UTS, Sydney, having been invited by Maxine Evers to give one of the keynotes at the conference on the Friday am.  Slides for that are over on the Slides page. On the Thursday pm prior to the conference I gave a…

  • Affect

    Just dealt with the final queries for our book, Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, edited by Caroline Maughan and myself, which is now in production.  It’s the first book-length study of the subject – astonishingly, given the importance of emotion to teaching and learning.  It’s also another first, being the first…

  • Standardized Clients @ Northumbria University Law School

    Karen Barton and I were at Northumbria U Law School this week, training Standardized Clients (SCs), at the invitation of Jonny Hall, Acting Associate Dean.  We had a brilliant time – what a great bunch of SCs – attentive, witty, fast learners.  Northumbria U. is the first English university to adopt the method – why…

  • New book series: Emerging Legal Learning – call for titles

    Over the past six months or so, amongst much else I've been involved in putting together a couple of book series.  This post is about the first: Emerging Legal Learning (ELL), published by Ashgate Publishing and co-edited with Caroline Maughan, Visiting Fellow, Bristol Law School, and Elizabeth Mertz, Professor, Wisconsin-Madison Law School and the American Bar…

  • The money

    Third place, by the way, landed us a cheque (or rather a check) for $6.62M (virtual).  Any ideas how I get that into the UK?

  • Recently…

    Long time no blog!  I'm thinking of moving platform, and about to start that soon (the task of shifting old posts is non-trivial, as I've discovered), but meantime there are so many interesting happening.  I've been on research leave since February, and the routine has been scribbling scribbling (digitally) in my wee room at home,…

  • William Twining: IALS Workshop in his honour

    Gave a paper yesterday at IALS, U. of London.  It was given in a workshop held in honour of William Twining, one of the finest legal educationalists we have in these isles.  I first came across his work after my two years of a postgrad LLB degree at Glasgow University, 1990-92. 

  • ‘Not just another gabfest’

    Elizabeth Chambless's phrase, her ambition for the conference, and it summed it up.  So many legal ed conferences end up as gabfests.  Part of the intellectual buzz of legal education, for me at any rate, is the practical buzz of doing, planning, executing great ideas that are part of the great tradition of innovation in…