Tag: LETR Symposium

  • Parallel session 2

    I attended Prof Stuart Bell (York U) and Dr Rachel Field, (Queensland U of Technology) on regulation and innovation at the academic stage. Stuart began by making the point that there was little on research on effectiveness of professional regulation in the undergraduate degree, one way or the other.  HE regulation has more of an…

  • Parallel session 1

    I attended Alex Roy (LSB), and Prof Rob Wilson (Warwick U, LETR consultant) on Identifying and Developing the Future Workforce.  Alex kicked off: large number of firms, mostly small (2-4 partners — over 20% of the workforce re solicitors, much larger proportion of law firms in E+W), few large firms.  Turnover looks like the internet…

  • LETR Symposium, day 2, keynote 2

    Second keynote, Wes Pue, from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.  Legal historian primarily, but with a huge knowledge and interest in legal education.  He described himself as raised in a British dominion, proud of his Canadian heritage, an outsider/insider, which defined his later research and views.  Studied at Oxford, and noted the variety…

  • Red LETR day… LETR Symposium, day 1

    Liveblogging the LETR Symposium at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester.  We (the research group, but especially Julian) have been working on this two-day event for the past six months or so with the SRA and others, so great that it’s finally rolling.  More information on the programme here.  The event was introduced by our Steering Panel…