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Law school and the making of the law student into a lawyer
paper Seow Hon Tan (National University of Singapore) presented the preliminary findings of a project exploring the impact of the first year at law school on the moral and professional development of students. An article by Seow Hon, Teaching legal ideals through jurisprudence…
Challenges of teaching law to non-law students
Alice Christudason (National University of Singapore) puts forward some solutions to the challenges of teaching law to non-law students. This article is an abbreviated version of a paper presented at the 2004 Society of Legal Scholars Conference. Degree programmes offered b…
Papers presented at 2009 Conference
– Seow Hon Tan (National University of Singapore) Peer mentoring for international students – Shamini Ragavan (Newcastle University) Enquiring Minds: strategies for promoting (better) research, autonomy and deployment of skills at level 3 – Keith Puttick, R…
More humane but less human?
visiting lecturer in Fiji, France, Malaysia and Singapore. Sue has taught most subjects across the undergraduate curriculum during her academic career. Her research interests include comparative law, human rights, property and social change and development, and family law, an…
Building links with practitioners, government agencies and universities through clinical aspects of legal education in Nigeria
West Indies, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Singapore etc. Between 1963 till 1989 there was a laissez faire attitude as all the Nigerian universities designed four year LLB degree programme provided these had the core common law jurisdictions such as constitutional/administra…
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The UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) works with law teachers, students, institutions and professional bodies at the academic and vocational stage to improve the student learning experience.…
About Us
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…
UKCLE Advisory Board
The UKCLE Advisory Board is made up of nominated representatives from legal education organisations and interest groups and our host institution, plus a number of co-opted members invited to join because of their particular expertise in legal education. The main function of th…
UKCLE vision
Vision, Mission and Values Vision Our vision is to support UK law schools in providing all students with the opportunity to experience a world class legal education. Mission The UK Centre for Legal Education promotes a scholarly and discipline specific approach to the i…
Contact UKCLE
You can contact UKCLE by mail, phone, fax, e-mail or by visiting us. UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: 024 7652 3117 Fax: 024 7652 3290 E-mail: ukcle@warwick.ac.uk We are based in the School of Law at the University of Warwi…
Privacy
Data Protection Act 1998 The UKCLE members database contains the details you submit to us via our registration form, events bookings or other correspondence. This database will remain private to UKCLE. We shall not make it publicly available (for example on this website), nor …
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 …
UKCLE strategy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
UKCLE’s strategy for supporting legal education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland includes a Nations Fund dedicated to supporting activities of a country specific character. We are developing areas of our website to showcase developments in Scotland, Wales and Northe…
UKCLE networking
UKCLE works with a number of associations, networks and interest groups. Our targets for networking include: development of links within the UK and internationally development of expertise/groups around priority areas support for cognate organisations and networks De…
UKCLE reports
UKCLE produces a range of reports as part of the reporting requirements of the Higher Education Academy and UKCLE’s Advisory Board. These include: Annual report Annual operational plan and budget 5 year strategic plan, the current one running from 2008-13. For …
Consultation on deferral of call to the Bar - UKCLE response
In July 2006 the Bar Standards Board (BSB) issued a consultation paper on deferral of call to the Bar – the UKCLE response is given below. The consultation paper identified a number of policy and regulatory issues affecting entry to the profession that might be influence…
Legal education in the UK
This report was compiled in October 2001 to provide baseline data on legal education. It provides background information on the provision of legal education in the UK, details the conclusions of recent reports and surveys, identifies pockets of innovation and finally looks at th…
Revised law subject benchmark statement: UKCLE response
In August 2006 the Quality Assurance Agency issued a draft law subject benchmark statement for consultation – the UKCLE response is given below. The new law subject benchmark statement was released in December 2007. Question 1: Overall, does the revised subject benchma…
A new framework for work-based learning: UKCLE response
In August 2006 the Law Society of England and Wales launched the next phase of consultations on its training regime in its consultation on a new framework for work-based learning – the UKCLE response is given below. Under the proposals the training contract could be redu…
The team
Staff Sefton Bloxham, Senior Teaching and Learning Advisor Paul Cockrell, Technical Support Developer Melanie Hughes, Administrative Assistant Danielle Lysaght, Centre Manager Shaheen Mansoor, Research Assistant Hansa Surti, Events Coordinator Sarah Stacey, Info…
Danielle Lysaght
Centre Manager Danielle’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7652 3117 Mobile: 07824 540709 Email: danielle.lysaght@warwick.ac.uk About Danielle Danielle took up the post of Centre Manager in June…
Hansa Surti
Events Coordinator Hansa’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7657 5219 E-mail: h.surti@warwick.ac.uk About Hansa Hansa joined UKCLE in January 2001. She has particular responsibility for UKCLE…
Jane Holder
ESD Consultant Jane Holder is Reader in Environmental Law in the Centre for Law and Environment, Faculty of Laws, UCL. She was appointed as UKCLE consultant for education for sustainable development (ESD) in September 2009. Jane’s research centres upon the regulatio…
Julian Webb
Centre Director Julian’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7615 0231 Mobile: 0782 4541158 E-mail: julian.webb@warwick.ac.uk Blog: hEaDspace About Julian Julian took over as Director of UKCLE fro…
Sarah Stacey
Information Officer Sarah’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7657 5331 Email: s.r.stacey@warwick.ac.uk About Sarah Sarah joined the team in January 2011 and will be contributing to the website co…
A time for learning and teaching? Making the most of the sabbatical
The UKCLE funded research project on the pedagogic impact of law school sabbaticals, undertaken by Maureen Spencer and Penny Kent (Middlesex University), examined the potential of the sabbatical to enhance research and teaching links. The final report can be downloaded at the bo…
Melanie Hughes
Administrative Assistant Melanie’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7652 3117 E-mail: melanie.hughes@warwick.ac.uk About Melanie Melanie joined UKCLE in December 2009 and comes from a backgroun…
Sefton Bloxham
Senior Teaching and Learning Advisor Sefton joined UKCLE in January 2011, succeeding Patricia McKellar who has moved to a new role at the University of London. Sefton’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education, University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephon…
2010 competition
How might a legal education enable students to contribute to the improvement of society? Details Competition entrants were invited to consider the following questions: What do you consider to be the key challenges facing society in the 21st century and how can lawyers …
Paul Cockrell
Technical Support Developer Paul’s contact details E-mail: paulcockrell@gmail.com About Paul Paul is currently providing support to UKCLE on a part-time consultancy basis. Paul has worked in the IT industry for over 10 years. He has seen a lot of change in the…
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