Tag: technology

  • 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…

  • BILETA2014 reflections

    Karen McCullagh was this year’s BILETA organiser at UEA — she was great, and this year’s conference was wonderful.  Our Chair, Gavin Sutter, introduced, segued, announced; sessions ran smoothly, accommodation was good, dinner was hosted at Norwich Football Club,  and I didn’t get the connection between  the place & food until I saw the name…

  • Shared space: regulation, technology and legal education in a global context

    Abstract for my BILETA 2014 legal education session below.  Slides up on the Slides page of this site: The LETR Report on legal services education and training (LSET), published in June 2013, is the most recent of a series of reports dealing with legal education in England and Wales.  Many of these reports do not…

  • Our data: free and open-access

    Recently I was trawling a publisher’s website for a technology article (Springer, since you ask), with no-access pages and tariff barriers all around me, when a cheeky wee popup asked me: Would you use a data collaboration website to share your research data with colleagues? Yes, publicly Yes, but only privately No I don’t have…

  • Research skills and the researchers of tomorrow

    More on research skills, this time on the wider context from Jisc.  Their report, out in 2012, revealed the serious problems and the huge potential of the digital shift.  Over a project span of three years Researchers of Tomorrow analysed the working practices of  around 17,000 doctoral students born between 1982 & 1994, the so-called Gen…

  • BILETA Conference: thanks

    Too early for reflections, but never too early for thanks…  So thanks to — My co-chair Abhilash Nair: totally committed, wonderful eye for detail, kept calm… The Admin/Tech Team: Maureen Cooke & Anne Conway (powered through the admin, great sense of how to put a conference together, and how to make participants feel welcome), Ian…

  • BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote

    Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’  Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…?  and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s).  His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…

  • BILETA Conference, Legal Education 1

    Live-blogging of our conference has begun!  Dean Kerrigan of NU Law School opened the conference — Gavin Sutter is our new Chair and we’ll be breaking out into small groups.  I’m going to join the legal education session for most of the day. Sefton Bloxham is in the Chair, and announced that HEA is offering…

  • BILETA2012: conference essay

      ‘Too many laws, too few examples’.  Our conference theme is a quotation from the French revolutionary, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just.  It goes to the heart of a long debate about regulation – how best to regulate human activities, and inspire good conduct.  Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words…

  • BILETA2012 Conference

    Final countdown to the BILETA2012 Conference, being hosted this year by Northumbria Law School in Newcastle’s Centre for Life, co-chaired by Abhilash Nair and myself, ably assisted by our law school’s conference team.  Our extended Call for Papers is closed and we’ve a full programme of session papers in legal education, IP, privacy, data protection,…

  • Academic education, professional education & technology

    I  contributed a chapter to a book just out, edited by Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, entitled Educating the Digital Lawyer (New Providence, NJ, Matthew Bender, 2012).  You can access an EPUB ebook version of the book free of charge (if you can’t access EPUBs, see discussion here).  It’s blogged by Stephanie Kimbro here and over…