Tag: #nlsclec15

  • CLE conference, day 2, session 3

    Presentations by Matthew Homewood, NLS, and Neetu Chetty (Varsity College, South Africa).  Matthew up first, on ‘Extending learning spaces using social media’.  He’s been collecting prizes by the armful recently, and he compared the situation re digital tech and legal education to the situation with initial teacher resistance to calculators in school classrooms.  Interesting.  He…

  • Experiential learning in preparing lawyers to encounter corruption (PM)

    Next up, Nigel Duncan and Sally Hughes, City Law School, on corruption, and particularly in the field of corporate work.  Their work goes to the core of legal ethics.  Has corruption gone mainstream?  The 2008 financial crash exposed systemic corruption within major banks and financial services corporations — ‘too big to fail’.  Sally and Nigel…

  • CLE conference keynote 1: Amerdeep Somal (PM)

    First of three keynotes, this one by Amerdeep Somal, Nottingham Trent Alumna of the Year.  Amerdeep has experience of working for the Ombudsman Service, has worked for the Independent Police Complaints Commission, a prosecutor in the CPS, and as an Immigration Judge (First Tier tribunal).  She started with reference to her own legal education, at…

  • Conference: Legal Education and Access to Justice

    This conference is starting tomorrow at Nottingham Trent University Law School.  It’s organised by Professor Jane Ching and Jo Boylan-Kemp, Principal Lecturer in the Law School.  Around 50 or so attending internationally, and there are some great sessions planned.  In lieu of a conference page in the Centre for Legal Education website (it’s currently undergoing…