Tag: legal education

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Final Plenary session

    Mitt Regan led the session discussion on technology — summarised below.   Four summaries: Professional Development Proposals Principles One size doesn't fit all law schools There are a different set of competencies that might predict law student abilities There are different and broader sets of skills that need to be articulated There is a global…

  • Lunch time session: Q & A with Laura Taylor

    Lunch time Laura Taylor, General Counsel, Chlorox.  Q & A session with David Wilkins.  David began by asking her what students lacked when they started with her dept.  She replied: Project Management Leadership International business experience.   Flexibility David — global dimension: you must have global competences today if you want to be a leader……

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – SCs + SIMPLE

    John Garvey (U of New Hampshire) and I present on our joint project to develop a new form of sim using SCs and SIMPLE (slides).  If you want to follow up the discussions, please feel free to post comments here…

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education: Chris Kenny Keynote

    Keynote by CEO of the Legal Services Board.  Good to see him at this conference because, as David Wilkins pointed out in introducing him, his organisation is taking seriously the issues also facing the ABA.  More below the fold, adapted from his slides.

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 1 & 2

    In the first panel session of the conference (Global Perspectives on Legal Education), interesting though rather general presentations.  Daniel Foote gave a comprehensive, detailed portrait of reform failure in Japan, where in spite of efforts to the contrary, the Bar Exam is being treated as a strait gateway by entrenched interests in the legal profession…

  • Webcasts: pace & rhythm

    Been thinking about this, since we're engaged in a project that incorporates them at Northumbria Law School.  Talking to staff today it was borne in on me yet again how much lectures are culturally more sophisticated events than we tend to think.  

  • JISC Learning & Teaching Experts meeting, Birmingham

    Great meet-up, as always.  Dizzying number of fascinating projects.  The day's slides and resources available here.  Too fast & furious to live blog, too busy taking it all in and applying to my own practice.  Most were not cutting-edge applications, but they were imaginative, carefully-planned implementations of technology that can inspire you to adapt and…

  • LILAC: Visions of Legal Education

    The panel discussion, chaired by Avrom and responding in part to the film produced by UKCLE, started with useful contributions from Chris Maguire, Melissa Hardee and Roger Burridge.  There were spirited responses from the floor but the debate resolved yet again into an either/or, between versions of the liberal law school and versions of the…

  • Dealing with new technologies in higher education: the analogy of road design

    I guess that, following on from my last rather downbeat posting of 2009, this is a much more upbeat appraisal of what technologies do to/for us.  I cycle pretty regularly to work, and on a variety of bikes — mountain bike, recumbent trike, folder, occasionally my trusty Mercian roadster.  Apart from the occasional bout of…

  • What will enhance legal education in Scotland?

    Was live-blogging Enhancing Legal Education in Scotland, a legal ed conference hosted by UKCLE last week — kudos to Julian Webb and his team for organising it, for it's difficult to bring together the disparate elements of Scots legal education — but my own afternoon session and then many other thoughts intervened, so I've delayed…

  • Reflections on LILAC 2009

    Great conference, excellently organised as always.  If you’re in legal education anywhere in the world and you’ve never been, you really need to get yourself over to it.  So much is here for you: lots of practical stuff on so many aspects of educational practice, plenty of absorbing theory, increasingly international viewpoints, regulatory bodies and…