Tag: well-being

  • Emerging Legal Education: a new publisher, two new books

    Emerging Legal Education, our Ashgate book series on legal education, is now a Routledge series, following the merging of Ashgate Publishing and Gower Books into the Taylor and Francis Group, which in turn is a division of the giant Informa Plc.  A few glitches with books not rendering properly on the web page but I’m…

  • 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…

  • National Wellness for Law Forum, 5-6 February, Keynote

    Liveblogging the fourth Forum, in the China in the World Centre at ANU, having arrived here a couple of days ago from -4 conditions in Glasgow, and with a lurgy, so doubly fuzzy.  All three readers of this blog, you need to bear with me.  Twitter handle: #wellnessforlaw. Eloquent Acknowledgement of Country and introduction by…

  • WG Hart, day 2, session 4

    Kicking off with Richard Collier — ‘Love law, love life’: Wellbeing in the legal profession — some critical reflections on recent developments.  Recurring theme: well-being, stress, is a problem in the legal profession, the literature and the research is saying.  Richard sped over a whole range of issues that were intersecting on this issue: catastrophising,…