Category: Rhetoric

  • BILETA 2017 final thoughts: the redress of legal education

    It was a fine conference, well organised by Anabela Susana Sousa Goncalves and her team at the Universidade do Minho.  I love Portugal.  I was brought up a Catholic, so it seemed perfectly natural to me to put a statue of St Francis holding the infant Jesus above the gantry in the hotel bar – a…

  • Research skills: a failure of imagination

    Thanks to Kristoffer Greaves for pointing me in the direction of the recent workshop on Teaching Research Skills to Law Students, summarised in Jenni Carr’s HEA Social Science blog.  I’m in Canberra now, so couldn’t make the workshop, but Rosemary Auchmuty, who authored the posting, has done a good job in pulling together the slides…