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A European qualification framework for social sciences: how does law fit in?
qualifications framework for legal education in Europe. Currently a small working group is discussing how to develop law indicators within Europe. Contact j.l.lonbay@bham.ac.uk if you would like to help frame a UK viewpoint on this that can be taken into account as the qualifi…
Teaching environmental justice across international, European and national disciplinary 'boundaries'
jurisdictional boundaries of international, European and national law, and the sub-disciplinary boundaries of human rights and environmental law. The term ‘environmental justice’ raises issues of, inter alia, conceptualisation, interpretation and application. In t…
Tuning legal studies: can we find 'commonality'?
qualifications framework for legal training in Europe. Julian is chair of the Training Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe and chairperson of ELFA’s QUAACAS Committee on quality, accreditation and assessment. This article is an abridged version o…
The focus on skills for improving students’ engagement: the Tuning educational structures approach
change and several initiatives within the European Higher Education Area, due to the Bologna Declaration in 1999. In this context the Tuning project arose in 2000 taking into account the rapid change with society and the higher educational sector by the 1999 Bologna Declaration.…
What is clinical legal education?
education is also expanding across eastern Europe, Africa and South America. CLE nonetheless remains something of a contested concept. At its broadest, the term has been used to encompass learning which is: experiential in design focused on enabling students to unders…
LILI 2003 panel discussion
Mulder (Erasmus University, Rotterdam – Europe) and Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London – the professional/vocational stage). …
The internationalisation of law degrees and enhancement of graduate employability
programmes in law and their role in furthering European integration and graduate employability Start date: July 2009 UKCLE funding: £1,652 Globalisation confronts the employment market with new challenges, and graduates need a wide range of key competences to adapt to the rapi…
Keynote speakers at 2007 Conference
developments in quality assurance in the UK and Europe have put new energy into an ever changing field. Peter’s address examined the nature of academic regulation, quality and standards, and discussed the relationship between higher education institutions, students and the…
Keynote speakers at 2008 Conference
the EU: the ‘commonisation’ of European law. Legal education on the European mainland is different from that in the UK, but this may be changing. The 25 civil jurisdictions in the European Union speak 22 of the EU’s official languages and the two common law j…
Chapters in books on Islamic law
Pluralism, Human Rights and Muslim Citizenship in Europe: Some Preliminary Reflections on an Evolving Methodology for Consensus” in Leonon, T. & Goldschmidt, J. (eds.) Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe Antwerp: Intersentia, pp. 57-79. Ali, S. S. (2007) &…
Equality and assessment in law
investigating environmental valuation in Europe. Simon’s research interests cover nuclear power (his PhD is looking at post-war nuclear power law in the UK), and learning and teaching ideas, particularly assessment strategies. …
Teaching in Tallinn: the post-modern law school?
development of legal education in eastern Europe and the setting up of the first accredited law school in Estonia. Note: this article is an abridged version of a paper delivered by Professor Gräzin at the European Law Faculties Association Annual Conference 2003. Post-mode…
The three most important characteristics of the English legal system: accidents of geography as much as history
to the early development within western Europe of the civil and common law traditions. As Goodman observes, “several characteristic consequences flow from the fact that law did not emanate from one centralised authority such as papacy, king or parliament”. The pecu…
Enterprise in Law project: EC law at Middlesex
– a prosperous country in northern Europe, with a distinctively Nordic feel. It may well occupy the space ascribed to Norway on traditional maps. factfile: Sinistra – located in eastern Europe (perhaps somewhere around the location of Bulgaria), and having recently…
Professional competence: can it be taught? A workplace perspective.
concerned with the client experience both in Europe and Asia. The success of one of his UK projects was formally recognised with a national prize for People and Innovation. Hugh is currently working as Learning and Development Consultant within Turcan Connell, a leading firm of …
(De-)Constructing the global law school
Bologna reforms on legal education Two Europe-wide processes are underway which could have significant implications for legal education: the Bologna process of reform of higher education and the establishment of a European Higher Education Area the Copenhagen Declarati…
Useful links for law teachers
(CLEA) Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) International Association of Law Schools (IALS) Society for Computers and Law Learning and teaching Action on Access Association for Learning Technology (ALT…
Project Internationalisation
University in Canada and with a number of European partners under the Erasmus programme. Elsewhere in the faculty mobility opportunities exist on a smaller scale, with some limited study abroad opportunities and a wider range of overseas field trip activities. Numbers of fee pay…
Teaching in virtual worlds
alternative virtual world such as Active Worlds Europe, which has a strict policy on being free of adult content. Examples/case studies An example of Second Life being used in legal education is CyberOne: Law in the court of public opinion, a module offered at Harvard Law Sc…
Enterprise in Law project: EC law at Middlesex
movement of goods and persons within the single European market. It is designed for students on joint honours programmes within the Middlesex University Business School, and requires no previous background in the study of law, although most of the students taking it will be on a…
Snails in bottles and language cuckoos...evolution in the law curriculum?
papers given. Avrom considered changes in Europe vis à vis language aspects of legal education, while Sally addressed 21st century curriculum design challenges and changes more generally, including a recent YouTube interpretation of Donoghue v Stevenson. When I revisited the …
Ethics or regulation?
obtaining funds outside the UK. Second, as European integration has proceeded the European Commission has argued for greater consistency in regulatory approaches to research ethics, exemplified by the establishment of a European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC). EUR…
Integrating ethics into the curriculum
partners scattered all over the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, and several times as many associates as partners; contacts are formal, structured, rare A world in which partners don’t know each other is not a world that nourishes professi…
The culture of legal education in France from a comparative viewpoint: perspectives for a legal education in the EU
having little impact in France, as throughout Europe, as it tends to lead to superficial changes rather than in-depth harmonisation. About RuthRuth Sefton-Green is a senior lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, specialising in comparative law of obligations. She …
Intellectual property for engineers: a curriculum development project
intellectual property has received in national and European policy. UK government Higher Education Innovation Fund programmes 1, 2 and currently 3 have each highlighted the importance of managing university generated intellectual property. In 1998 the DTI and the DfEE united to …
Introducing legal clinics in Olomouc: the application of common law clinical models in a civil law system
the first live client clinic in central Europe in 1996. Educational expectations – the education system in the Czech Republic is focused more on the transmission of theoretical findings than the UK system, where the stress is more on communication, activity, the applicat…
A more hit than miss report?
is virtually nothing of substance about Europe and the Bologna process, nor about developments in Asia and Australasia. In this regard its outlook is extraordinarily insular. Finally, there is also relatively little attempt in the report to understand or explore the causes of th…
Legal professional education in Wonderland
professions). Beyond these factors there is also a growing European dimension. For those training students to enter the legal profession in England and Wales this can all seem remote the Bologna Process is moving slowly and is not planned to have direct impact until 2010, and …
Studying law - a brief guide
other legislation (Statutory Instruments, European Law) and the reports of Court cases. Secondary material consists of textbooks, monographs and articles. The difference and the reason for the preference for primary sources is accuracy. The primary sources will always be accurat…
Clinical legal education: theory, practice and possibilities
and medical degree programmes in the UK, Europe and North America. Year 4 live client programme – in Year 4 students undertake live client work, taking on cases for members of the public and offering a full legal range of legal services. Students will undertake each stag…
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