Tag: legal education

  • Learning / Technology in Legal Education: Special Issue of The Law Teacher

    The first 2016 issue of The Law Teacher is now out. It’s a Special Issue on legal education and technology, guest-edited by me, with an Editorial and six articles on the past, present and future use of technology in law schools.

  • Post-LETR, what’s the regulatory position on legal education in E+W?

    In her recent visit to Australian law schools Jane Ching of Nottingham Law School, a co-author of LETR, spent a week as a Visitor at ANU College of Law, and with PEARL staff in particular.  We discussed how Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education could work closely with PEARL and with other legal educational…

  • CLE15: Reflections (PH)

    Our CLE 2015 Conference is drawing to a close.  My co-blogger, Paul, will have the honour of posting our final blog entry, so watch out for that.  In the meantime, we have Prof. Patricia Leighton, co-director of LERN UK, bringing formal proceedings to a graceful close.  LERN has done a huge amount of work in…

  • CLE15: The Role of Legal Clinics in Access to Justice in Turkish Legal Education

    Presented by Kilinc Ayse and Akkus Ezgi Fulya from Afyon Kocatepe University in Turkey. Kilinc and Akkus focused on how they are helping their students to develop the skills they will need to support their future clients in accessing the justice system.  In particular, they discussed: the right of access to justice as a legal…

  • CLE15: Nottingham Creative IP Project (PH)

    Presented by Nick Johnson and Janice Denoncourt from NLS. Janice and Nick had sponsorship of £69,000 (a lot for Law) from the Intellectual Property Offic and the EU to establish a project that combined expertise from the NLS Legal Advice Centre, the IP Research Group, the Hive and the School of Art & Design.  They…

  • Access to justice for crime victims, the accused, and the community: teaching law students about the role of the prosecutor in advancing social justice (PM)

    First session of the third and last day, and it’s Lynn Su from New York Law School.  She’s a former assistant district attorney from the Office of the District Attorney (DA), Bronx County, NY City. She is describing a clinic run at NYLS that focuses on prosecution (apparently the model for the office of Law…

  • Caste in law schools?

    Caste, it appears, doesn’t exist in law schools.  But Sameena argues the opposite — it’s very much there.  Cf World Report 2008 – ‘Dalits and indigenous peoples … continue to face discrimination, exclusion and acts of violence.’  In law and caste, what happens to these cases?  Very little data — eg number of cases.  And…

  • CLE15: McKenzie Friends (PH)

    My last live blog for today! Full title:  Training Law Students to be McKenzie Friends for Victims of Domestic Abuse. Presented by:  Veronica Lachkovic who teaches on the Bar Professional Training Course for aspiring barristers at City Law School. Ronnie spoke to us about the invaluable work she has been doing, supporting and training students…

  • CLE15: It’s Jane and Michele (PH)

    Full Title:  Justice for All:  Reflective Practice and Reflective Learning We had a double act, as this session was co-presented by our own Prof. Jane Ching (who coincidentally has just launched a distance learning LLM in Legal Education) and also Michele Leering, Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre in Canada (and passionate…

  • CLE15: Jane Harries – Justice through Training for All (PH)

    Some of you may know Jane from TNA Consulting Services.   If not, here she is: The Costa Coffee product placement was accidental! Jane opened with taxation of milk quotas – talk about a unique angle.  Well done Jane, you’d win a prize for originality, if we had one! Jane’s talk focused on training in the…

  • CLE15: John Hodgson – What is a solicitor (PH)

    John is a Reader in Law here at NLS. John explored the changes taking place in the legal profession, specifically in the context of solicitors in England & Wales. He started by explaining that solicitors are those looking to make lots of money, not Ladies of the Night!  Thanks for clearing that up, John. Even…

  • CLE15 presents: Becky Huxley-Binns (PH)

    Full Title:  A threshold concept of undergraduate law and ethics For those of you who don’t know Becky (that will be one person at most, then), she is currently at the University of Law and is also Chair of the QAA Law Subject Benchmark Review Panel 2014-15, UK. Becky is here to explain the work…