Tag: access to justice

  • CLE15: Reflections (PH)

    Our CLE 2015 Conference is drawing to a close.  My co-blogger, Paul, will have the honour of posting our final blog entry, so watch out for that.  In the meantime, we have Prof. Patricia Leighton, co-director of LERN UK, bringing formal proceedings to a graceful close.  LERN has done a huge amount of work in…

  • CLE15: The Role of Legal Clinics in Access to Justice in Turkish Legal Education

    Presented by Kilinc Ayse and Akkus Ezgi Fulya from Afyon Kocatepe University in Turkey. Kilinc and Akkus focused on how they are helping their students to develop the skills they will need to support their future clients in accessing the justice system.  In particular, they discussed: the right of access to justice as a legal…

  • CLE15: Nottingham Creative IP Project (PH)

    Presented by Nick Johnson and Janice Denoncourt from NLS. Janice and Nick had sponsorship of £69,000 (a lot for Law) from the Intellectual Property Offic and the EU to establish a project that combined expertise from the NLS Legal Advice Centre, the IP Research Group, the Hive and the School of Art & Design.  They…

  • Access to justice for crime victims, the accused, and the community: teaching law students about the role of the prosecutor in advancing social justice (PM)

    First session of the third and last day, and it’s Lynn Su from New York Law School.  She’s a former assistant district attorney from the Office of the District Attorney (DA), Bronx County, NY City. She is describing a clinic run at NYLS that focuses on prosecution (apparently the model for the office of Law…

  • CLE15: McKenzie Friends (PH)

    My last live blog for today! Full title:  Training Law Students to be McKenzie Friends for Victims of Domestic Abuse. Presented by:  Veronica Lachkovic who teaches on the Bar Professional Training Course for aspiring barristers at City Law School. Ronnie spoke to us about the invaluable work she has been doing, supporting and training students…

  • CLE15: It’s Jane and Michele (PH)

    Full Title:  Justice for All:  Reflective Practice and Reflective Learning We had a double act, as this session was co-presented by our own Prof. Jane Ching (who coincidentally has just launched a distance learning LLM in Legal Education) and also Michele Leering, Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre in Canada (and passionate…

  • CLE15: Jane Harries – Justice through Training for All (PH)

    Some of you may know Jane from TNA Consulting Services.   If not, here she is: The Costa Coffee product placement was accidental! Jane opened with taxation of milk quotas – talk about a unique angle.  Well done Jane, you’d win a prize for originality, if we had one! Jane’s talk focused on training in the…

  • CLE15: John Hodgson – What is a solicitor (PH)

    John is a Reader in Law here at NLS. John explored the changes taking place in the legal profession, specifically in the context of solicitors in England & Wales. He started by explaining that solicitors are those looking to make lots of money, not Ladies of the Night!  Thanks for clearing that up, John. Even…

  • 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…

  • CLE15: Ethics in Action (PH)

    Full Title – Ethics in Action: Two PBL workshop sessions demonstrating the innovative way legal education can be delivered to enhance students’ consideration of access to justice issues. Our speaker is Jenny Gibbons who is a teaching fellow at York Law School, where guided-discovery PBL (as opposed to open-discovery) is the standard approach across their…

  • CLE15: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (PH)

    No, this is not a review of the day’s events, but the title of Prof. Janine Griffiths-Baker’s inaugural lecture. Full title:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Lawyers in Film and Fiction. Janine is Dean of the Law School, here at Nottingham Law School.  She is just being officially introduced by Prof. David Burdette. …

  • CLE15: Building a foundation for access to justice: unlocking the 1st year curriculum (PH)

    Dr Liz Hefferman, associate professor at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland is now talking to us and I’ve just scored my first handout of the day. Liz wants to talk about the re-design of the curriculum Foundations of Law course (used to be known as the Irish Legal System).  She identifies access to justice as something…