Tag: legal education

  • Prediction, judgment and digital technologies

    He had been told that when looking for a good oracle it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to, but he was shut. There was a sign by the entrance saying, ‘I just don’t know any more. Try next door, but that’s just a suggestion, not formal oracular advice’. The Web Summit has…

  • Simulation – emerging from the shadows

    Roger Smith, who blogs at Law Technology and Access to Justice, invited me to contribute a post on use of digital legal education & sims – so I sketched out some context to Gina Alexandris’ earlier description a week or so ago on his blog of the use of sims in Ontario’s experimental Legal Practice…

  • SLS Conference, Legal Education, session 4 & final thoughts

    Final legal education session.We had a call-off at the last minute, so only two speakers.  First up, Melissa Hardy on her research into the third year of a three-year cohort study into the career intentions of law degree students in the context of current and proposed legal education and training reforms She started by describing her…

  • SLS Conference, Legal Education, Law Teacher Special Issue session

    This was the first session on Day 2 of the SLS Conference Legal Education section, a session devoted to the Special Issue on Learning/Technology, The Law Teacher, vol 50 issue 1 [paywall], that was published earlier this year, edited by me.  That issue, comprising six papers and discussed on this blog post, was entitled Learning/Technology because I wanted…

  • SLS conference 2016, Legal Education section, plenary

    I was asked to give a plenary talk to the SLS Legal Education section.  I invited Dirk Rodenburg, Director of Undergraduate and Professional Programs from Queen’s University Law School, Ontario, to join me to talk about his new simulation platform as part of the presentation, and to talk about his unique blending of medical and…

  • Legal Education Research Network workshop

    I was asked by Pat Leighton to contribute to the LERN workshop today at IALS, ‘Effective dissemination of research findings’, so am focusing on ‘New media and digital research literacies for legal educators’, a session I gave last year and which I’ve updated.  Slides as usual at the tab above and at Slideshare.  One very…

  • Imagination & legal reasoning, session 2

    Firt up, Suzanne Keen.  She’s a narratologist, written on empathy and the novel, amongst much else.  She contrasted immersion with perspective-taking and role-taking, and defined various forms of empathy.  Machiavellian empathy — evolved behaviour, eg psychopaths demonstrate it a lot; self-empathy, where you deal with threats by imagining what they will do to you; fantasy…

  • Directions, day two: The Big Debate

    We have a panel of law deans, practitioners and students to discuss legal education — Chris Gane, Michael Hor, Geraint Howells, Mike McConville, Jeremy Dein, Icarus Ho Shing Chan, Brigitte Kiu, Patricia Lam, Siegfried Sin, Justice John L. Saundersand chaired by Richard Morris.  The debate is focused on ‘Navigating the (academic) law degree: are we…

  • Directions conference, day two, keynote two

    Our first session today was a plenary with Professors Stacy Caplow talking to us over Skype from Brooklyn Law School on clinical legal education from the perspective of 2026, Rich Flofcheski, Hong Kong U Faculty of Law on flipping the tort class, and Lisa Webley on researching legal education — methods, outcomes and directions.  Chaired…

  • Directions in Legal Education Conference, Chinese U of HK Faculty of Law

    Am attending the above conference (#legaled16) at CUHK Law Faculty, giving one of the plenaries — slides in the usual places, on Slideshare and on the Slides tab above.  I’ll be talking about disintermediation, which I find a fascinating subject, and making broader points about its effects on legal education than I raised in my…

  • Emerging Legal Education: a new publisher, two new books

    Emerging Legal Education, our Ashgate book series on legal education, is now a Routledge series, following the merging of Ashgate Publishing and Gower Books into the Taylor and Francis Group, which in turn is a division of the giant Informa Plc.  A few glitches with books not rendering properly on the web page but I’m…

  • Law Teacher Special Issue author nominated for a Webby Award

    One of our authors in The Law Teacher special issue, Dan Jackson, is director of the NuLawLab which has produced software, NuLawMaps, that’s been nominated for a Webby Award, under the Law category.  Dan discusses his centre’s approach to legal education in his journal article, arguing that coupling technology instruction with training in human-centered design approaches offers legal educators a…