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Learning about law lecturing
bottom of the page. Learning about law lecturing draws on both research and first hand experience of teaching, offering practical hints on how to make the most of the lecture environment. It aims to provoke thought about the purpose and effectiveness of teaching methods an…
Lecturing in a live environment
give their time and participate in guest lecturing. They carry, by definition, a heavy burden of responsibility and shy away from anything which might draw them into ‘political’comment. The perception of councillors is that they are unlikely to have the detailed e…
Teaching business students law by virtual means
acknowledged limitations of traditional lecturing as an effective mechanism for promoting deep learning and reflective practice. The increasing diversity within the student population and the inclusion of an increasing number of key but not core skills into an already crowded cu…
What makes a good law lecturer?
We are always looking for ways of making the student voice heard in relation to learning and teaching in law. With small project funding from Warwick Digital Press, Patricia McKellar asked students undertaking a law degree at Warwick University to look at what they thought made …
Producing sound recording with Audacity
In this article from the Autumn 2008 issue of Directions Caroline Coles (De Montfort University) looks at the use of Audacity software to record – and re-record – lectures. Many tutors are experimenting with making sound recordings of lectures, freeing up valuable…
Is legal education working?
Chris Gale, Leeds Metropolitan University Lecturing in a live environment – Peter Scott, Glasgow Caledonian University Part time law students: first contact – Andrew Francis, Keele University, and Iain McDonald, University of the West of England A problem-based…
Teaching legal system
for use with small groups. Chapter 3: lecturing in legal system or legal method. Purpose, structure, interest, preparation, delivering the lecture, audio-visual materials, handouts. Chapter 4: assessment. The importance of assessment, simulative and formative assessmen…
Legal education in practice: insights on a journey
In summer 2002 Chris Ashford moved from lecturing to become Legal Education Officer at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors. In this article from the Spring 2003 issue of Directions Chris considers how legal education operates – and could operate – within a commercial framework…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Law teachers have difficulty balancing law lecturing, research and service to the university, in addition to mastering new technologies, increased course administration and trying to improve teaching to larger classes and more diverse groups of students. Law Essentials is base…
Tracey Varnava
Education Thomas P (2000) Learning about law lecturing Coventry: National Centre for Legal Education Co-editor (with R Burridge, K Hinett and A Paliwala) Burridge R et al (2002) Effective learning and teaching in law London: Routledge …
Preface to the second edition
it is undertaken as a partnership between lecturing and academic support staff (library and computing). Each has experience and insights to bring to the instructional process. Acknowledgements Illustration 2 is taken from Lesson planning for teachers by Peter D John, 1993, a…
Are we MAD? Introducing mooting and debating at a law firm
summer of 2002 Chris Ashford moved from lecturing to become Legal Education Officer at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors. Following his previous article on the move from teaching to practice, in this article from the Autumn 2003 issue of Directions Chris describes a novel approach to th…
Law in action: learning through scripted role plays - student introduction
process, and, without intending to denigrate lecturing staff, perhaps more instructive as a result.…
Teaching in Tallinn: the post-modern law school?
were canonised; the doctrinal one, mainly lecturing (how Kant taught) and the so-called Socratic method (practised in the US). Both methods actively deny the merits of each other (as they must be in a polarised world of modernism!), not noticing that in both cases the final goal…
GGSL - the phoenix of legal education
forms of curriculum design. Traditional lecturing, as a form of education, is now largely a bizarre and strange idea. Webcasts, podcasts and face-to-face surgeries now replace many of them. We have also developed an approach called ‘transactional learning’ – …
The art of the impossible: the practicalities of being a new law teacher
thinks is possible. Teaching sessions: lecturing and tutorials Standing up in front of a lecture theatre full of students is daunting and undoubtedly akin to a performance (Cownie 2004, Lang 2008). I felt that tutorial teaching was a far less artificial situation than lectur…
Developing reflective practice
can encourage 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…
PDP update: policy and practice
programmes support and endorsement by lecturing staff, underpinned by support from the institution reflects local customs, practices and circumstances with regard to the format and operation of the scheme complements good practice inherent in existing activity and practice…
More imagination, less dogma: the role of the LLB
memories of the unacceptable face of law lecturing. Yet it is still the overwhelming medium for passing down knowledge. That is not to say that the proponents of the liberal degree are wrong to assert the dangers of technocraticism or the need to maintain institutional autonom…
It's Land Law, Captain, but not as we know it: using drama to enhance large group learning
there was a law lecturer who found himself lecturing on registered title and unregistered land. And this made the lecturer very happy. Not only did he enjoy the abstract geometry of land law, but he also delighted in how it could enable people to realise their dreams and desires…
Telling it like it is...giving feedback in difficult circumstances
be better for everyone if I just gave up lecturing here and left you free to choose someone else… Course director: Well, now you mention it I was thinking we’re a bit overstaffed and, erm, well, ‘last in, first out’, and all that… Necessary f…
Curriculum development
staff for other schools offer to train lecturing staff in the use of a particular database and then ‘sell’ the concept of student instruction in this and other aspects of information skills try to integrate your staff training sessions within the school’s s…
Negotiation skills in a clinical context: the virtual transaction
lost. If they had sought the support of the lecturing staff, they could have been counselled on a suitable tactic, but two of the groups allowed a temporary technical set back to take over their thinking. Realising that time was running out, the alpha group made an irrevo…
Using role play for learning
process, and, without intending to denigrate lecturing staff, perhaps more instructive as a result. Visiting the court When the role plays given here were first devised they were used for school visits, held at the local magistrates court. Students were given a brief introdu…
Moving outside the box?
appropriate, but several would have liked some more lecturing or structured explanation in the early stages. How appropriate was the style of delivery (balance of lectures/seminars, group work, class participation, etc)? fairly low: 3 average: 1 fairly high: 19 hi…
Teaching environmental law
traditions. There is more ambivalence about lecturing than about any other TLM; teachers use lectures for a range of purposes, often to shape their course and steer students towards their learning objectives, or to supplement or deviate from textbook coverage. With only one exce…
Supporting law teaching: training and teaching
teaching and learning process – not just lecturing staff but also library staff and IT trainers. If learning opportunities provided by support staff and tutors are not integrated within the curriculum then, whatever the medium of delivery, ranging from traditional chalk and ta…
More humane but less human?
of the consequences these have had on the lecturing experience, to glance at national and institutional responses to some of these and to concentrate on some aspects of the working environment which have perhaps been under-considered but which deserve more attention if academic …
Making good lawyers: challenges to vocational legal education
He observes that: The tuition and lecturing given was, you know, of a much higher standard than I got at university…we were spoon-fed much more. If this is a sign of old problems coming back to haunt us, what do students feel about the new bits of the vocational …
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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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