Tag: technology

  • 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…

  • BILETA 2021 Conference

    The BILETA 2021 Conference will be kicking off next week – 0915 BST Wed 14 April – 1800 BST Friday 16 April.  I’ve been organising this year’s online conference on behalf of Newcastle University Law School with the assistance of my super virtual assistant Kirsty Melvin.  We have over 80 papers, two plenaries, two paper…

  • Assessment in Legal Education – new book series

    Today ANU Press has published Assessment in Legal Education. Critical Perspectives on the Scholarship of Assessment and Learning in Law. Vol 1: England.  It’s the first volume in a series, this volume edited by Alison Bone and myself.  The series editors are Craig Collins and Vivien Holmes (ANU College of Law); I’m consultant editor.  ANU Press is an…

  • Hemiola in legal education – afterthoughts on the Directions conference

    I’ve summarised my keynote in a blog post on the Osgoode Professional Development blog, so no need to comment on it here, except to say that the place of the arts in legal education design is a long-neglected area of educational research – more of that at the end of this blog post. This was…

  • Directions in Legal Education 2018, Chinese University of Hong Kong

    I’m speaking at CUHK Faculty of Law’s conference on teaching and learning in law – slides on Slideshare, and at the Slides tab above, titled ‘An exhibition of future law schools: three portraits and a seascape’. Am now attending the parallel session on Future of Legal Education.  First up, Geraint Howells, ‘Every pint bottle should…

  • Brian Inkster in Toronto

    Am at a legal innovation roundtable sponsored by Thomson Reuters, in TR’s building, Bay St, downtown Toronto, at the invitation of Monica Goyal, an innovator and practitioner in Toronto who works with Osgoode and is the founder of Aluvion.  Brian Inkster is the guest speaker, introduced by Mitch Kowalski, a chapter in whose book The Great…

  • ‘Curriculum is technology’: Affordances of ePortfolios.

    This is the title of a plenary I gave in ANU on Friday at the launch of the university’s ePortfolio.  Slides at the tab above and on Slideshare.  I was also on the panel discussion, and later videotaped in interview for the website.  Sections of the talk: Research design and reflective journalling: a case study…

  • Libraries, boats and legal education

    My favourite library on ANU campus is the Menzies Library, named for the Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies who laid the foundation stone, and which holds collections in Asia Pacific and Far East – history, anthropology, politics and international relations, literature and language, religion and philosophy.  It’s a heritage-listed building and rightly so.…

  • Prediction, judgment and digital technologies

    He had been told that when looking for a good oracle it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to, but he was shut. There was a sign by the entrance saying, ‘I just don’t know any more. Try next door, but that’s just a suggestion, not formal oracular advice’. The Web Summit has…

  • SLS Conference, Legal Education, Law Teacher Special Issue session

    This was the first session on Day 2 of the SLS Conference Legal Education section, a session devoted to the Special Issue on Learning/Technology, The Law Teacher, vol 50 issue 1 [paywall], that was published earlier this year, edited by me.  That issue, comprising six papers and discussed on this blog post, was entitled Learning/Technology because I wanted…

  • Law Teacher Special Issue author nominated for a Webby Award

    One of our authors in The Law Teacher special issue, Dan Jackson, is director of the NuLawLab which has produced software, NuLawMaps, that’s been nominated for a Webby Award, under the Law category.  Dan discusses his centre’s approach to legal education in his journal article, arguing that coupling technology instruction with training in human-centered design approaches offers legal educators a…

  • Access to justice: technology and the role of legal education – a grand convergence? (PM)

    Third and final keynote, this time given by Ron Staudt, of Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Ron is one of my legal ed tech heroes — he’s been involved since 1978, and in most of the major US tech projects since then.  I always go back to his work, and often find myself learning more about…