Tag: professional education

  • Teaching Legal Ethics & Developing Professional Judgment

    This is a session at ANU College of Law that I’m attending & liveblogging — see here for full details.  It was organised by Tony Foley & colleagues, and the keynote speaker is Judith Wegner from North Carolina, who in legal educational circles needs no introduction,  talking on ‘Developing Professional Judgment in Future Lawyers —…

  • Modestly big data for legal education

    The Human Face of Big Data has been splashed across screens & newsprint the last few days — see The Guardian’s excellent Datablog article, and Scientific American for summaries of what it’s about.  According to Rick Smolens, one of the two founders, it will last for two months, asks respondents 60 questions via a mobile…

  • Australian National University, Legal Workshop

    I returned recently from spending seven days at the College of Law in the Australian National University in Canberra, part of my duties as Adjunct Professor there.  ‘Duties’ is exactly the wrong word.  It’s a real pleasure to be working, planning and implementing innovative legal education with such a dedicated bunch of staff, both in…

  • Plenary: Candour in Disclosing Character and Fitness Issues

    The full title of the first speaker’s session is ‘Trends in Character and Fitness from the perspective of a Seasoned Law School Administrator’ — Ann Lukingbeal, from Cornell — Asst Dean, Admin.  She pointed out that students are sanitizing their applications to law school, ie concealing negative information.  eg at Cornell the ‘Have you ever…

  • OSTE

    Having been involved in the construction of an OSCE for the SRA’s new QLTS, I’m following the literature in medical education quite closely.  Came across a useful meta-review on a twist to the OSCE — the OSTE: Objective Structured Teaching Encounter.  Reference below the fold, with abstract.

  • Sea-change

    Happy New Year to all readers!  My article, Sea-change, was published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession, in a number dedicated to William Twining (seminar held in his honour was blogged here). When I got down to writing the article, though, I found myself writing about something rather different from the seminar presentation, though…

  • JISC Learning & Teaching Experts meeting, Birmingham

    Great meet-up, as always.  Dizzying number of fascinating projects.  The day's slides and resources available here.  Too fast & furious to live blog, too busy taking it all in and applying to my own practice.  Most were not cutting-edge applications, but they were imaginative, carefully-planned implementations of technology that can inspire you to adapt and…

  • What will enhance legal education in Scotland?

    Was live-blogging Enhancing Legal Education in Scotland, a legal ed conference hosted by UKCLE last week — kudos to Julian Webb and his team for organising it, for it's difficult to bring together the disparate elements of Scots legal education — but my own afternoon session and then many other thoughts intervened, so I've delayed…

  • Seminars: Kobe University Faculty of Law

    I was invited by Akira Saito, professor of law at Kobe University Faculty of Law, to hold seminars on what we were doing in the GGSL with regard to transactional learning and technology.  I’d previously worked with another law school, Kwansei Gakuin, in Osaka, close by Kobe, where faculty developed a version of our sim software, and…