Author: Paul Maharg

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 3 & 4

    Session 3 focused on the view from regulators — see the conference page at NYLS for a list of those taking part.  Stephen Zack, ABA President, was useful on the dilemmas faced by regulators.  But yr intrepid correspondent was beginning to pall at a full day of panel sessions, and excused himself from half of…

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education: Chris Kenny Keynote

    Keynote by CEO of the Legal Services Board.  Good to see him at this conference because, as David Wilkins pointed out in introducing him, his organisation is taking seriously the issues also facing the ABA.  More below the fold, adapted from his slides.

  • Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education, panel sessions 1 & 2

    In the first panel session of the conference (Global Perspectives on Legal Education), interesting though rather general presentations.  Daniel Foote gave a comprehensive, detailed portrait of reform failure in Japan, where in spite of efforts to the contrary, the Bar Exam is being treated as a strait gateway by entrenched interests in the legal profession…

  • Langdell & book production — happy accident?

    Oliver Goodenough’s comment about books and the Langdellian revolution stuck in my mind. A key issue is whether the technology of book production stimulated the revolution, or whether it was simply co-opted by legal academics as a useful technology and had no impact upon the dissemination of the method. 

  • Educating the Digital Lawyer

    Long hiatus — got caught up in writing deadlines gridlock which I'm still not clear of.  Plus I'm uneasy with the direction that Typepad are taking their blogging software (too commercial for me) and am looking for alternatives, probably WordPress, combining this with a more substantial site with publications etc.  Still planning that.  Meanwhile, am…

  • Sensus communis: experiential learning and the law school curriculum

    This is a plenary presentation being given at the IJCLE Conference at Northumbria Law School.  Keynote slides at the usual place.  It focuses on the place of Francis Hutcheson in an alternative tradition to that of the liberal law school, calling on Dewey and others; and is a version of a chapter I've written for…

  • Webcasts: pace & rhythm

    Been thinking about this, since we're engaged in a project that incorporates them at Northumbria Law School.  Talking to staff today it was borne in on me yet again how much lectures are culturally more sophisticated events than we tend to think.  

  • Research Day, Student Law Office, Northumbria U.

    The Student Law Office (SLO), or law clinic, is one of the most fascinating elements of Northumbria's Law School.  I'll be writing about it more in the future, but yesterday we held a research day, where we discussed directions for research on clinical and experiential learning.  Carol Boothby and I led it — a mix…

  • HEA conference, roundup

    On the train, back to Newcastle.  Reflections on the last two days…

  • HEA conference, day two, nomadic devices

    The blurb for this session — 'we will discuss how nomadic technology will utterly transform learning' — is irresistible.  Stuart Smith (3 Sheep Ltd, in association with MIMAS), started by defining nomadic learners pretty broadly as anyone with mobile devices + travel + working & learning.   He started with the example of a hairdressing…

  • HEA conference, day two, Simshare session

    No surprise that I was at this session since I was part of the team delivering it, with Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar.  Lots of ideas re SIMPLE and other sims, Simshare and OER slides in 30 mins…   Questions were taken, eg about the sustainability of digital resources — good point, though it goes beyond…

  • HEA conference, day two, mobile learning

    Linked to HEA IMPALA.  Good to see IMPALA as the basis for this work — really good project.  Session on mobile learning by mobile devices and educational context, by Don Vinson, Simon Padley and Joanna Hardman, U. of Gloucestershire.  Physical sciences disciplinary context, but in many ways applicable to almost all disciplines.  Three examples were…