Tag: simulated clients

  • 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…

  • Sim Clients @ Osgoode

    We’ve organised student interviews with our Sim Clients (SCs) this academic year again in Osgoode Hall Law School.  As before, we ran the project in the JD 1L, but this time in the first, not the second, semester. And as before we ran the project in Legal Process (subject leader Shelley Margot Kierstead, with the…

  • Simulated Client workshop: Plenary wrap-up

    Final session…  I posed the last question set out in our programme: where to from here?  One participant answered it in an interestingly oblique way.  What about the model of the encounter, he said – is it all about an expert telling the student what he or she did wrong?  Surely there must be a…

  • Vivien Holmes, Pamela Taylor-Barnett: The power of narrative – immersive video/audio work with students

    Vivien and Pamela presented on the work they’re doing on using video clips to enhance the approaches taken by Mary Gentile in her educational design work and in her fine book, Giving Voice to Values.  The video excerpts, produced in ANU College of Law, are well-acted, short piece-to-camera, direct and powerful. Students watch them, then…

  • Moira Murray: Student evaluation of the use of SCs at ANU College of Law

    Moira described how the 2012 pilot project was designed in the ANU College of Law.  I trained the SCs for ANU CoL back then, the pilot was held, and there was consolidated and refresher training, too, of SCs.  Each student of 104 students in the pilot had a recorded interview with a client, and had…

  • Lucy Evans: the experience of using SCs at Flinders Law School

    Before Lucy’s session I gave a brief history of the SCI initiative in my slides ‘The Simulated Client Initiative: A portrait of the outsider as teacher’, and they’re up on the SCI site. Back to Flinders…  Lucy described how the SC innovation was carried out at Flinders – based, as Lucy pointed out, on the…

  • 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…

  • Experiential learning & simulated clients

      Just finished reading a fine report on experiential learning, with simulated clients at the core of the analysis.  The report is published by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), as part of its legal education initiative, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, and is entitled Ahead of the Curve: Turning Law Students…

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education

    This is a conference hosted by the Association of Law Teachers at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, today, and part of their 50th anniversary celebrations (there’s a 50 Years of Legal Education conference later in the year), which are looking back as well as looking forward to the future(s) of legal education.  Maybe it’s…

  • Simulated Clients @ Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Been travelling recently, so not much posting.  To Hong Kong in early December, training Simulated Clients for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, organised by Elsa Kelly.  Spent four intensive days on scenario and assessment standardisation, with 10 clients.  The sessions were attended by Matthew Cheung and Martin Doris.  Martin and I go…

  • Standardized Clients @ Northumbria University Law School

    Karen Barton and I were at Northumbria U Law School this week, training Standardized Clients (SCs), at the invitation of Jonny Hall, Acting Associate Dean.  We had a brilliant time – what a great bunch of SCs – attentive, witty, fast learners.  Northumbria U. is the first English university to adopt the method – why…