Search
Pages (30)
The Shackleton method of team leadership in legal education
represents the high watermark of successful team leadership in civilian life. The paper suggests that Shackleton’s methods lend themselves well to legal education, analysing a number of his techniques including selective information sharing, ‘shepherding’ (ke…
Chair's report: Sefton Bloxham
Elon University, USA, develops students’ leadership, communication and problem solving skills in the context of what can broadly be described as “community action” projects. Coming from a background in Communications Studies, Bonnie was keen to emphasise that the learning…
Opportunities for interaction: improving student engagement in the law school setting
takes responsibility for his/her community leadership and service. This is the philosophy of the teaching of law at Elon University School of Law- lawyers as leaders. There is a prescription for producing lawyers as leaders to which we hold at Elon Law. In their first year, la…
The culture of questioning techniques in the classroom
program manager at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.…
Engaging students
education: a model for engaged learning and leadership in the 21st century – Steven Friedland and Bonnie McAlister (Elon University School of Law, USA) read report below Factors influencing prospective undergraduate law students in their choice of university: the student…
What needs to change to meet the challenges facing legal education over the next 10 years?
Huxley-Binns Strong and cohesive university leadership to defend the teleos of the HE academy Effective course management with flexibility to adjust tradition if necessary to meet student demands within the teleos of the HE academy Imagination, communication and flexibi…
New opportunities, but where's the will (or the money)?
position to respond. Firstly, there is little leadership within the legal education community. The last meeting of the Lord Chancellor’s Standing Conference was cancelled, and the reorganisation of the Lord Chancellor’s responsibilities holds little promise for revit…
Doing diagnostics: accounting for progress in student communications and advocacy
program designer at the Center For Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a professor of public speaking and group dynamics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Bonnie presented a paper on The culture of questioning techniques in the classroom at Le…
Ethics dilemma 1
approach? The working group tends to look to you for leadership – what are you going to advise? Things to consider before you decide what to do: The group members should know about the meeting since it is one of the regular ones, so the community posting and/or…
The International Association of Law Schools forges ahead. Where are the UK law schools?
was The role of law schools and law school leadership in a changing world, with 82 papers available. Together with papers from conferences on enriching the law school curriculum, global approaches to international business transactions and teaching techniques in different cultur…
Employability and work-related learning in legal education
adaptability, self reliance, business acumen, leadership, networking and team working skills. Are these attributes necessarily shared by the typical law graduate? Are there ways of enhancing these skills and capabilities within legal education? UKCLE has developed a number of re…
Intensive law degrees – hitting the ground running
tutorials, summer stage teaching and programme leadership, as well as the obvious need to balance tutors’ commitment to the summer stage modules with annual leave entitlement. The paper examines how these are managed. Short biographies of panel members Mick Sumpter is …
Making good lawyers - making lawyers good
non-law placements a seminar on ethical leadership is included in the curriculum, and will soon build to a three course sequence focusing on the moral formation of leaders a centre for the study of ethical leadership has been created a foundations course on social justice …
Promoting ethical lawyering
unlikely to be implemented without firm leadership amongst both the academic and practising branches of the legal profession. However, there have been too many reported failures in the ethical standards of solicitors in recent years for these ideas to be rejected out of hand. …
Using scenarios to teach ethics
profit foundation dedicated to ethics in leadership, I wrote a number of scenarios and introduced a facilitated group learning approach to supplement the foundation’s traditional methods of addressing groups on the topic of ethics. The scenario themes are based on experien…
Group, peer and self assessment
range of important skills such as team and leadership skills, communication skills and organisational skills. In addition, teams or groups can achieve more than individuals and tackle more complex issues. A major issue with group work, however, is seeking to ensure that a fair…
Clinical legal education and extracurricular law clinic
transferable skills such as organisation, leadership and public relations. Finally, students who sit on the committee which debates and resolves ethical dilemmas arising in cases benefit from the ethical development which accompanies involvement in what Lawrence Kohlberg called …
Papers presented at 2009 Conference
Dublin) The Shackleton method of team leadership in legal education – Frederick Price (College of Law) Leading today’s people towards tomorrow’s law school: the approach of a modern university – Lynn Leighton-Johnstone & Ian Fox-Williams (University of Wo…
Pathways to the Professions
leaders, it is another chance to demonstrate leadership skills to potential employers, valuable in the competitive scramble for traineeships, as well as to receive free training and payment for taking part. For the university, the project is intended to improve both the retentio…
People in legal education
use of technology, partly because in my leadership role I need to be able to define the level of complexity and time requirements of particular techniques in order to encourage other staff and also because I feel the best way to develop the underlying pedagogy is to experiment p…
Portrait of the online tutor as Thelonius Monk
improvisation, information and dialogue, creative leadership and community learning group-based, not tutor-centred listening to conversation and adding creatively and helpfully to it answering and improvising on questions, themes and topics that arise from the interaction …
Developing reflective practice
reflective learning. Peer lecturing and seminar leadership have also been used successfully, and peer assessment is a powerful tool in encouraging students to reflect on their own learning. References…
Negotiation skills in a clinical context: the virtual transaction
always worked well as a team and the joint leadership of the group centred on them. The gamma group was made up of four school leavers. Historically, their academic achievement at both school and university was average, but they were lively students who could contribute w…
Response to the HEFCE strategic plan 2003-08
supportive also of the proposals for developing leadership, government and management within departments and beyond. The strategic plan contains little, if anything, that we do not support and much that we applaud. The three areas for which we would appreciate more guidance an…
More imagination, less dogma: the role of the LLB
and the professions (lack of vision and leadership). Successive governments have also failed to appreciate the international and developmental significance of legal education and left it to drift between the Departments for Education and Science and Constitutional Affairs. The…
Intellectual property for engineers: a curriculum development project
influencing change: individuals with strong leadership skills financial pressures academic fashion, academic attitudes The intellectual property law curriculum in law schools is in a constant state of development, given the continuing growth of national and interna…
Small group learning and assessment
‘Mediating the metacognitive’ Educational Leadership 42(3):57-62 Cuseo J (1992) ‘Cooperative learning vs small group discussions and group projects: the critical differences’ Cooperative Learning and College Teaching 2(3):5-10 Davidson N and Worsham T…
The future of the legal profession and learning: a view from practice
drafting and negotiating skills through to leadership, supervision skills and networking skills. Admittedly not all partners are completely converted to the importance of learning and personal development, and some are still driven by the goal of attaining the required num…
The essential synergy between assessment and learning in skills-based legal practice courses
PCLL. Some key factors in our reform Leadership of a small design team We were fortunate to have Stephen Nathanson as a colleague at the crucial time in 2001. Steve is an acknowledged designer of skills-based legal practice courses, and he led our small overarching design …
Moving outside the box?
the box’: activities in the E.On UK Leadership programme – executives individually and in groups review unrelated book and film materials such as The life of Pi or West Side Story relatively unstructured strategy cases, with presentations using the post modern text…
Comments
There are no comments at this time