Category: simulation

  • SLS Conference, Legal Education, session 4 & final thoughts

    Final legal education session.We had a call-off at the last minute, so only two speakers.  First up, Melissa Hardy on her research into the third year of a three-year cohort study into the career intentions of law degree students in the context of current and proposed legal education and training reforms She started by describing her…

  • SLS conference 2016, Legal Education section, plenary

    I was asked to give a plenary talk to the SLS Legal Education section.  I invited Dirk Rodenburg, Director of Undergraduate and Professional Programs from Queen’s University Law School, Ontario, to join me to talk about his new simulation platform as part of the presentation, and to talk about his unique blending of medical and…

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education – liveblog

    Am liveblogging the conference as much as I can.  Julian and I up first, slides on the Slides tab.  Whirlwind tour of past & present on the theme of the title, ‘Of tails and dogs: Standards, standardisation and innovation in assessment’. First up, Craig Newbury-Jones and Nigel Firth, Plymouth U Law School, on ‘Digital assessment for…

  • Convergence and fragmentation

    I’m giving a paper today at Melbourne Law School, by kind invitation of Gary Cazalet, title ‘Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, informatics and legal education’.  Slides up on the Slides page above.  The paper is a version of draft chapter five of a book I’m writing, Genealogies of Legal Education (interim chapter titles in the…

  • 3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference

    I’ve been invited to the 3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, subtitled Accelerating Competency: Assessment in Legal Education, and being held in Denver, COL.  I’m live-blogging most of the event.  The conference is hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), who run a series of significant projects — one of which…

  • Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations

    Kate Galloway has posted on the digital revolution and the legal curriculum, and her piece warrants discussion.  From her conclusion: I believe it possible to develop an ‘immersion’ law curriculum using digital literacies as an organising context. A scaffolded approach to knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential part of the contemporary law curriculum. This…

  • Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education

    I’ve accepted a position as a part-time professor in Nottingham Law School, starting this month, and concurrent with my position at ANU.  I’ll be working on research and publication projects with staff in the Centre for Legal Education (CLE) where there’s synergy with the projects that I’ll be setting up  in the Centre at ANU,…

  • LawTechCamp, London

    Liveblogging the above unconference, just finished my first Pecha Kucha at LawTechCamp — 20 slides, automatic 6sec per slide, new discipline for me, used to taking 5,000 words to draw breath, pretty brutal.  But you got to try it — the cool pecha-dudes did it without looking at their slides, and timed themselves perfectly.  Clearly I’ve…

  • Assessment of professional legal education

    Currently presenting at a conference organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I was invited by Agusti Cerillo Martinez, the Director of the Law & Political Science Dept to speak on simulation and legal education; and I’ve focused on issues of the assessment of professional education.  I’m interested in this not least because of the…

  • Australian National University, Legal Workshop

    I returned recently from spending seven days at the College of Law in the Australian National University in Canberra, part of my duties as Adjunct Professor there.  ‘Duties’ is exactly the wrong word.  It’s a real pleasure to be working, planning and implementing innovative legal education with such a dedicated bunch of staff, both in…

  • Hong Kong U Faculty of Law: virtual & f2f sims

    I’m in Hong Kong U Faculty of Law, on an exchange scheme with Wilson Chow of the Law Faculty, funded by HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme.  Wilson has already visited the UK, and conducted a survey of students using SIMPLE at Strathclyde, Northumbria and Glamorgan.  He presented his results at the BILETA conference, and  will…

  • NTU Centre for Legal Education conference: session 1, visions of legal education

    I’m liveblogging the Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Legal Education launch conference.  Directors of the Centre are Becky Huxley-Binns, Jane Ching, my colleague on the LETR project, and Andrea Nollent, who introduced the event and Baroness Deech, who gave the first address.  The session was called Visions of Legal Education.  Ruth pointed out how critical…