Tag: regulation

  • Sim client workshop: programme and resources

    One of the initiatives I’ve been working on in the last 20 years is the Simulated Client Initiative. I’ve worked with a range of partners to establish SC projects internationally. I’ve also organised international workshops in London (Gray’s Inn), Canberra (ANU College of Law) and Toronto, which were liveblogged in this blog This month, people…

  • BILETA 2024

    I’m at the two-day BILETA 2024 annual conference, held this year in Dublin, hosted by Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. As an Honorary Vice President of BILETA I was invited by the Executive to participate in a roundtable on the newly-minted policy document, ‘A manifesto for the post-pandemic university’. The document describes…

  • Learning & teaching session @ Canadian Assoc for Legal Ethics (CALE) conference

    Am at Windsor Law School, on the Detroit River, attending the CALE annual conference on legal ethics.  I’m reporting on the education session which had with four presentations.  Leslie Walden (Ottawa) presented on ‘Incorporating Government Lawyers into Legal Ethics Teaching’.  Pooja Parmar (Victoria) gave us an interesting account of her students learning legal ethics at…

  • LETR, regulatory relationship and the shared space

    The initial LETR specification asked us to report on many areas of legal education, and under various headings regulatory relationship was part of the future reform of legal education and training.  The subject was hardly addressed in earlier reports on legal education in these isles, either because it wasn’t perceived as problematic or, more likely,…

  • LETR conference: reflections

    I said in my first conference post that I was hoping for the conference to help me understand LETR’s continuing significance, if any.   I left with more questions in my mind about LETR’s purpose, but also a sense that what we co-authors made of it was at least in parts enduring beyond the five-year…

  • Common entrance exams and the SQE: the wrong story

    The SQE is the Solicitors Qualifying Exam in England and Wales.  It’s an example of a common entrance examination, something a number of legal education regulators are interested in, or already practising.  I was discussing it last night in downtown Toronto, at Osgoode Professional Development, in the context of legal education generally, asking nine questions of…

  • Simulated Clients: A workshop on interdisciplinary learning and teaching in legal education

    Shameless plug alert…  I’m organising the next workshop in the SLS legal education workshops series, called ‘Simulated Clients: A workshop on interdisciplinary learning and teaching in legal education’.  Friday 2 June, 0950-1600, in the Common Room of the Atkin Building, City Law School, City University, London.   Here’s the flyer, and an extract from it: The…

  • Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) conference, Melbourne 2017, session 1

    I’m attending the CLEA conference, and giving a paper with Julian Webb (slides up on the Slides tab above). Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country by David Barker, who also presented a paper giving a general summary of the history of Australian law schools from 1960 onwards. In their paper Claire Carroll and Brad Jessup examined…

  • Directions, day two: The Big Debate

    We have a panel of law deans, practitioners and students to discuss legal education — Chris Gane, Michael Hor, Geraint Howells, Mike McConville, Jeremy Dein, Icarus Ho Shing Chan, Brigitte Kiu, Patricia Lam, Siegfried Sin, Justice John L. Saundersand chaired by Richard Morris.  The debate is focused on ‘Navigating the (academic) law degree: are we…

  • Post-LETR, what’s the regulatory position on legal education in E+W?

    In her recent visit to Australian law schools Jane Ching of Nottingham Law School, a co-author of LETR, spent a week as a Visitor at ANU College of Law, and with PEARL staff in particular.  We discussed how Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education could work closely with PEARL and with other legal educational…

  • Developing oral skills in undergraduate students to enhance access to justice (PM)

    Pamela Henderson and Jo Boylan-Kemp on the above.  Why do oral skills matter?  Because of the arenas of client communication, interviewing, negotiation and mediation, mooting and advocacy.  At Notts Law School, the skills are developed in SCALE-UP modules, eg English Legal Method, Crime, etc from first to final year.  Jo described a student-led pedagogy, where skills…

  • LETR on regulatory relationships

    I was revisiting LETR on regulatory relationship for a paper I was giving here at Denver U Sturm College of Law.  A year or so on, how is it looking?  The responses of the main regulators were reasonably predictable though the future consequences of their actions are difficult to foresee.  But what of the report itself?…