Tag: technology
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BILETA2014 reflections
Karen McCullagh was this year’s BILETA organiser at UEA — she was great, and this year’s conference was wonderful. Our Chair, Gavin Sutter, introduced, segued, announced; sessions ran smoothly, accommodation was good, dinner was hosted at Norwich Football Club, and I didn’t get the connection between the place & food until I saw the name…
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Shared space: regulation, technology and legal education in a global context
Abstract for my BILETA 2014 legal education session below. Slides up on the Slides page of this site: The LETR Report on legal services education and training (LSET), published in June 2013, is the most recent of a series of reports dealing with legal education in England and Wales. Many of these reports do not…
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Research skills and the researchers of tomorrow
More on research skills, this time on the wider context from Jisc. Their report, out in 2012, revealed the serious problems and the huge potential of the digital shift. Over a project span of three years Researchers of Tomorrow analysed the working practices of around 17,000 doctoral students born between 1982 & 1994, the so-called Gen…
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BILETA Conference: thanks
Too early for reflections, but never too early for thanks… So thanks to — My co-chair Abhilash Nair: totally committed, wonderful eye for detail, kept calm… The Admin/Tech Team: Maureen Cooke & Anne Conway (powered through the admin, great sense of how to put a conference together, and how to make participants feel welcome), Ian…
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BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote
Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’ Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…? and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s). His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…
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BILETA Conference, Legal Education 1
Live-blogging of our conference has begun! Dean Kerrigan of NU Law School opened the conference — Gavin Sutter is our new Chair and we’ll be breaking out into small groups. I’m going to join the legal education session for most of the day. Sefton Bloxham is in the Chair, and announced that HEA is offering…
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BILETA2012: conference essay
‘Too many laws, too few examples’. Our conference theme is a quotation from the French revolutionary, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. It goes to the heart of a long debate about regulation – how best to regulate human activities, and inspire good conduct. Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words…
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Academic education, professional education & technology
I contributed a chapter to a book just out, edited by Oliver Goodenough and Marc Lauritsen, entitled Educating the Digital Lawyer (New Providence, NJ, Matthew Bender, 2012). You can access an EPUB ebook version of the book free of charge (if you can’t access EPUBs, see discussion here). It’s blogged by Stephanie Kimbro here and over…
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Recently…
Long time no blog! I'm thinking of moving platform, and about to start that soon (the task of shifting old posts is non-trivial, as I've discovered), but meantime there are so many interesting happening. I've been on research leave since February, and the routine has been scribbling scribbling (digitally) in my wee room at home,…