Tag: professionalism

  • Assessment of professional legal education

    Currently presenting at a conference organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I was invited by Agusti Cerillo Martinez, the Director of the Law & Political Science Dept to speak on simulation and legal education; and I’ve focused on issues of the assessment of professional education.  I’m interested in this not least because of the…

  • Plenary: Introducing the NCBE Content Validity Study

    Next up was the session on the Content Validity Study (CSV).  David Boyd introduced the subject by focusing on validity — assembling evidence that justifies the decisions made on the basis of test scores; and evidence that the test actually measures what it intends to measure.  Bar exams are licensing tests, he pointed out; and…

  • ‘Not just another gabfest’

    Elizabeth Chambless's phrase, her ambition for the conference, and it summed it up.  So many legal ed conferences end up as gabfests.  Part of the intellectual buzz of legal education, for me at any rate, is the practical buzz of doing, planning, executing great ideas that are part of the great tradition of innovation in…

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Final Plenary session

    Mitt Regan led the session discussion on technology — summarised below.   Four summaries: Professional Development Proposals Principles One size doesn't fit all law schools There are a different set of competencies that might predict law student abilities There are different and broader sets of skills that need to be articulated There is a global…

  • Lunch time session: Q & A with Laura Taylor

    Lunch time Laura Taylor, General Counsel, Chlorox.  Q & A session with David Wilkins.  David began by asking her what students lacked when they started with her dept.  She replied: Project Management Leadership International business experience.   Flexibility David — global dimension: you must have global competences today if you want to be a leader……

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – Proposals for reform Professional Development Proposals

    Good introduction by Elizabeth Chambless — feasibility, impact? These were defined as essential for the success of the proposals.  Not all proposals presented are summarised below.  All of them are interesting, though, and can be found on the NYLS web site here.

  • Future Ed 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century – SCs + SIMPLE

    John Garvey (U of New Hampshire) and I present on our joint project to develop a new form of sim using SCs and SIMPLE (slides).  If you want to follow up the discussions, please feel free to post comments here…

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education: Chris Kenny Keynote

    Keynote by CEO of the Legal Services Board.  Good to see him at this conference because, as David Wilkins pointed out in introducing him, his organisation is taking seriously the issues also facing the ABA.  More below the fold, adapted from his slides.

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 1 & 2

    In the first panel session of the conference (Global Perspectives on Legal Education), interesting though rather general presentations.  Daniel Foote gave a comprehensive, detailed portrait of reform failure in Japan, where in spite of efforts to the contrary, the Bar Exam is being treated as a strait gateway by entrenched interests in the legal profession…