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Lawpaths: helping law librarians to deliver skills
Lawpaths project aimed to meet the needs of law librarians in teaching the skills required to conduct legal research. Lawpaths arose from the realisation that user guides and materials to support legal skills training were being written and re-written in institutions all over …
Ask a librarian...
the advent of the Internet. For academic librarians this has opened new challenges in the form of digital library developments, a growing need for information skills training and even participation in course design. The library can no longer be viewed as a quiet haven for the …
Developing an e-learning resource for OSCOLA
summative assessment. A survey of other law librarians indicated significant interest in the provision of e-learning materials, and hence it was decided to create a resource which could be readily reused and repurposed by other law schools. The aims of the project were: T…
Integrating information literacy into an undergraduate law course
an information skills training manual for librarians and computer-based video. In 1998 Cathie was awarded a PGCE (FE/HE). She is a Registered Practioner of the Higher Education Academy. In the late 1980s the issue of the pedagogy of legal research training was debated over …
Developing an interactive multimedia guide to enhance legal research skills
tuition. The guide was developed by the law librarians at the University of the West of England (UWE) with both campus-based and distance learners in mind. Claire currently works part time at UWE as Law Librarian, while also working as Management Librarian (jobshare…
Lessons learnt from the Legal Research Skills Programme
3 Callister P (2003) ‘Beyond training: law librarianship’s quest for the pedagogy of legal research education’ Law Library Journal Winter 2003 Carroll R, Johnston S and Thompson E (2001) Information literacy and legal research skills education in the UWA Ba…
Lessons learnt from the Legal Research Skills Programme
3 Callister P (2003) ‘Beyond training: law librarianship’s quest for the pedagogy of legal research education’ Law Library Journal Winter 2003 Carroll R, Johnston S and Thompson E (2001) Information literacy and legal research skills education in the UWA Ba…
Supporting law teaching: training and teaching
modules. In fact, several university law librarians have done so and created short instructional modules on how to use individual law databases. Now, returning to the survey results, as far as the pedagogical use of VLE is concerned the survey found that the greatest numbers …
VLEs and their role in legal education support: a UK overview
virtual learning environment: a guide for librarians for development ideas A selection of digital tutorials (some more interactive than others): PoLeR (Practical Online Legal Electronic Research) – course used by students on the Legal Practice Course at Manchester…
Developing the student learning environment at City University
Emily Allbon, City University Presentation at UKCLE seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers, 16 February 2005 This session looked at how Emily has developed tools in order to improve the student learning experience at City University. Key to this has been…
Developing students’ critical thinking skills through peer assessment and information literacy
Richard Owen (University of Glamorgan) looked at an attempt to develop students’ critical thinking through information literacy and the use of asynchronous methods of peer assessment to develop essay writing and intellectual skills. Richard’s slides are embedded…
Teaching legal research
published in February 2006. Aimed at tutors and librarians teaching undergraduates and postgraduates how to research law, the book will also be of interest to librarians in law firms involved in devising and delivering training to newly appointed trainee solicitors. Written by…
BILETA research into ICT provision in law schools
training: eight respondents had dedicated law librarians and six had dedicated ICT staff all respondents provided training for both students and staff only two used external trainers for student training, while four used them for staff training (mainly for Lexis and Wes…
UKCLE Advisory Board
Buddle|“British & Irish Association of Law Librarians”:http://www.biall.org.uk/ (BIALL)| |Vacant|“British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association”:http://www.bileta.ac.uk/ (BILETA)| |Kevin Kerrigan|“Clinical Legal Education Organis…
FLAG: researching foreign law on the Internet
Kingdom. How did FLAG develop? For many years the librarians of the five most extensive collections of foreign and international law in the United Kingdom (the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University …
Test your research skills here!
after discussions with students, academics, librarians and contacts at some of the major law firms that legal research skills are vitally important to students who want to succeed at university, law school and in their training contracts. The days of endless photocopying are ove…
Opening up the law
users – teachers, academics and law librarians have been contacted by post, e-mail, bulletin board and newsletter, seeking their input in compiling the lists of cases which will eventually comprise the database. A provisional list of around 1,500 judgments has been identif…
The Case Project: sharing legal resources in Yorkshire and the Humber
extended to cross-sectoral bodies, including librarians within further education, public libraries, law firms, government libraries and law societies in the region. The project explored the best way of making cross-sectoral legal resources available by electronic means, using …
Useful links for law teachers
(ALTA) British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) International Association of Law Schools (IALS) Society for Com…
Curriculum development
As Davies and Jackson (2005) note: “Librarians offer expertise in accessing information effectively and efficiently (Standard 2 of the ACRL Standards discussed at the end of chapter 1). Law school IT staff, where available, provide the specialist law applications, maintain…
Counting the cost of the law degree
supervision and guidance from experienced librarians, tutors or postgraduates teaching assistants. Whilst all disciplines are exploring programmes that utilise experiential, problem based and reflective learning methods, law can lay claim to these being more significant than m…
Reassessing band funding for law: a discussion paper
supervision and guidance from experienced librarians, tutors or postgraduates. At present the process is taught at differing levels of intensity. It is widely reported by employers, teachers on vocational programmes and others (including in 2001 the Chairman of the Law Society&#…
Lesson materials and teaching aids
Practice Course) and newly appointed law librarians. Although Halsbury’s is available as an electronic source – Halsbury’s Laws Direct – the details of what the paper version contains and when to use it remain valid, especially since the electronic version do…
Using the virtual learning environment
electronic resources in the mid 1990s law librarians spend an increasing amount of time training students. Often facilities do not exist for large group sessions incorporating practical elements, and therefore the same session must be repeated a number of times. Using VLE techno…
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The UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) was established in January 2000 with the aim of promoting the development of learning and teaching in law at both the academic and vocational stages. We work with the legal education community with the aim of improving the student lear…
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UKCLE monitoring and evaluation
UKCLE evaluation 2009-10 The UKCLE evaluation strategy aims to reveal the extent to which UKCLE has been successful in enhancing learning and teaching in law. Qualitative and quantative data is collected against the Higher Education Academy evidence of success framework on an …
Current Events (1)
BIALL 42nd annual conference
The annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians will be held at The Sage, Gateshead, Newcastle.…
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Teaching and learning for legal skills trainers
The aim of this seminar, organised in collaboration with "BIALL":http://www.biall.org.uk/home.asp (the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians), was to showcase innovative practice in learning and support from the perspective of the law librarian. The programme explored iss...…
Exploring the impact of the Government of Wales Act 2006 on legal education in the UK
The Government of Wales Act 2006 has significant implications for those involved in legal education both in Wales and across the UK. This seminar, jointly organised by UKCLE and the University of Glamorgan, provided an outline of the main provisions of the Act and explored the wa...…
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