Tag: Peter Birks

  • Pressing Problems, second parallel session

    Caroline Gibby first, on ‘SQEixt: where do we go from here? The careful roar from the North’. Caroline asked what’s good, what’s bad about the SQE. There is a lot of confusion about SQE 1. There’s inconsistency regarding the Bar’s approach to it. Management often doesn’t understand the issues that are often quite complex; and…

  • Pressing problems, parallel paper session 1

    First up, Geoffrey Samuels on ‘What can law schools offer other disciplines?’ He gave an interesting summary of what since the glossators and commentators law offered to other disciplines in the early universities. Such a pleasure to hear the achievements of early jurists praised in this way – I wrote on this in Transforming Legal…

  • Revisiting ‘Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School for?’ 20 years on.

    Am back in Northumbria Law School for this event organised by Northumbria School of Law and Nottingham Law School, funded by the Modern Law Review. Was late because I thought I knew my way round Newcastle – so like Glasgow in so many ways – but stopped to re-orient (sea is on the wrong side,…