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Interactive learning in an eConfucius drama classroom
based on interactive learning in a guided drama classroom. Download Amy’s full paper at the foot of this page. Amy has developed a new dimension to the work she presented at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008 and 2009. Based on the argument for a modern Confuci…
It's Land Law, Captain, but not as we know it: using drama to enhance large group learning
Drama has long been an important aspect of legal education in the form of the moot, and more recently in client interviewing and other forms of role play. In their paper at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008 Mark Davys and Jenny Smith (Keele University) considered how ske…
Helping law students via spaces and performance
play. …Could I have led it far more like a pure drama session?…I don’t know, this could have completely failed if I’d done it like this, but could I have just focused on them as performers in space? Spaces, and research: the sociologist (Cath Lambert) Th…
Papers presented at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008
Law, Captain, but not as we know it: using drama to enhance large group learning – Mark Davys and Jenny Smith (Keele University) PodLaw: developing a portable learning environment to enhance the study of law – Chris Hull (St Mary’s University College) Spiri…
From Foucaultian bio-power to Confucian respect: bio-power and e-Confucius
pedagogy in Amy’s paper, Lessons from a drama e-course. Abdul further developed his ideas on Confucius and legal education in Socrates and Confucius: a long history (?) of information technology in legal education, presented at Learning in Law Annual Conference 10. For F…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Law, Captain, but not as we know it: using drama to enhance large group learning’ – Mark Davys and Jenny Smith (Keele University) PodLaw: developing a portable learning environment to enhance the study of law – Chris Hull (St Mary’s University College) …
Clinical legal education stream
convictions. Following the recent BBC drama The Innocence Project and the Rough Justice programme on the University of Bristol Innocence Project, this session provided an opportunity to discuss the growth and direction of the movement. Julie and Michael led a discussion on mo…
Socrates and Confucius: a long history (?) of information technology in legal education
wikis, the use of virtual reality systems, drama and transactional learning, reflect both contemporary critiques of the Socratic method and the original wisdom of Confucius. Karen Barton (University of Strathclyde) reports: One of the great joys of coming to the Learning in La…
Stop thief! Engaging young people with the law
workshops on subjects ranging from dance and drama to law and forensics. The Learn-in was held over Friday evening and Saturday until lunchtime with a sleepover. The children brought sleeping bags and slept in their groups in various sections of the learning centre – thi…
Papers presented at 2009 Conference
(University of Warwick) Lessons from a drama e-course – Amy Huey-Ling Shee (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Helping law students via spaces and performance – Grier Palmer, Cath Lambert & Jonathan Heron (University of Warwick) Absorbing the shock:…
'On trial': tutor as silent witness
using the concept of the film/TV courtroom drama, with the courtroom as the context and vehicle to liberate and make deep learning more dynamic through enhanced teamwork, debate and presentation. ‘On trial’ moves away from traditional seminar or group presentations, using ro…
People in legal education
the representation of law in Renaissance drama and incorporate innovative teaching practices. They are taught in performance linked teaching spaces developed by the two CETLs located at Warwick, the Reinvention Centre and the CAPITAL Centre – see the Academy profile. …
Papers and posters presented at the 2010 conference
Warwick) Interactive learning in an eConfucius drama classroom – Amy Shee (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Posters Moving from lectures to transactional learning: simulating probate – Tom Serby (Anglia Ruskin University) Using podcasts to de…
Innocence projects: a perfect solution for clinical legal education?
likely to increase in the wake of a new drama series the BBC is planning for the autumn, The Innocence Project. We do not yet know how sympathetic the BBC interpretation will be to the work we are doing within universities, but given the likely artistic licence and melodrama tha…
Preparing to role play
where appropriate. One technique used in drama therapy, known as forum theatre, invites the audience to interrupt where they think appropriate – the rub is that they must then assume the role of the person they have stopped. This can work well if everyone is prepared. Ba…
Creativity in the law curriculum
examples at Warwick, including: full module dramatised dissertation written assessment in the form of a script in a special module on images, origins and cultures of law and in the core trusts law module student-led seminar on literary, dramatic and other artistic links …
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Captain, but not as we know it”: using drama to enhance large group learning – Mark Davys & Jenny Smith (Keele University) read full paper Trial by media: teaching ‘contempt of court’ to non-lawyers – Ursula Smartt (Thames Valley University) r…
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Consultation on deferral of call to the Bar - UKCLE response
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Legal education in the UK
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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…
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