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International website for teaching ethics and professionalism
for a new website on teaching ethics and professionalism. Teaching ethics and promoting the development of professionalism are currently vibrant and important topics in both legal education and the law profession. A considerable amount of information exists around the world ab…
The Tao of Professionalism
lifelong learners. I developed the Tao of Professionalism for the Albany Law School (ALS) orientation to encourage law students to recognise that as lawyers we must continuously work on professional development. ALS’ orientation is intended to impress upon the students tha…
Increasing potential for success in legal practice -some empirically derived insights from new lawyers
whose identity is guided by principles of professionalism. The paper argues that legal education programs tailored to meet these practice needs can significantly improve student engagement. Presentation Short biographies of panel members Tony Foley is currently As…
Access to legal work experience and its role in the (re)production of legal professional identity
UKCLE PDF project Project team: Andrew Francis, Keele University (e-mail: a.m.francis@law.keele.ac.uk) and Hilary Sommerlad, Professor of Socio Legal Studies at University of Leicester (previously at Centre for Research into Diversity in the Professions, Leeds Metropolitan Uni…
The firm as a new actor in legal education: implications for lawyers' identity formation
James Faulconbridge and Andrew Cook (Lancaster University) presented insights from empirical research into the way lawyers’ identities are formed by regulated education and also increasingly by law firms. James and Andrew’s slides are embedded below, and you can…
Perspectives on professional formation: apprenticeship, pupillage and the assessed year in employment
In her paper at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2010, Gillian McGaughey (Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast) analysed the form and content of the compulsory assessed year in employment for social work graduates in Northern Ireland …
Foundation degrees
solving generic skills such as reasoning, professionalism and work process management Students who have successfully completed a foundation degree in law may be allowed to progress onto the second year of a qualifying law degree. See Foundation Degree Forward and Foundat…
Qualified Lawyer Transfer Scheme (QLTS): client-centred assessment of qualified lawyers
professional competence, or should we focus on professionalism itself? In either case, what do we mean by competence and professionalism? What would an assessment of these qualities actually mean to the assessor and the assessed professional? How should we assess ethical conduct…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
to enhance work-based learning: towards professionalism – Karen Clubb (University of Derby) read report below Ritualising reflection? Uses and abuses of learning journals – Caroline Maughan (University of the West of England) read report below Where two worl…
A practice survey of the teaching, learning and assessment of law in undergraduate medical education
increasing research and practice emphasis on professionalism. It was therefore timely to review and evaluate how medical students acquire their knowledge and understanding of the law relating to medical practice; legal rules, concepts and constructs, and the skills needed to app…
Graduate standards in law: a framework for describing graduateness in law
application communication key skills professionalism communication professionalism evaluation and creativity key skills A chart can be used to illustrate the way in which a distinction could be drawn between the expectations of students on di…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
below Enhancing employability: developing professionalism within the curriculum – Charlotte Woodhead (University of Derby) read report below International survey on the teaching of ethics Nigel and Sara presented an interim report on their international survey i…
Julian Webb
modesty” of Harry Arthurs’ humane professionalism’ Osgoode Hall Law Journal 44(1):119-155 Webb J (2006) ‘When “law and sociology” is not enough: transdisciplinarity and the problem of complexity’ in M Freeman (ed) Law and sociology Oxf…
Ethics in the undergraduate curriculum: an international wiki community
International website for teaching ethics and professionalism, for the latest information on the proposed resource. Nigel has been researching the teaching of legal ethics across law schools in a number of jurisdictions, exploring: the extent to which legal ethics is taug…
Enhancing retention and student success
improving retention rates; only sustained professionalism in approach. References Black P and Wiliam D (1998) ‘Assessment and classroom learning’ Assessment in Education 5(1), 7-74 Knight PT and Yorke M (2004) Learning, curriculum and employability London: R…
It's SIMPLE: the SIMulated Professional Learning Environment
P (2007) Authentic fictions: simulation, professionalism and legal learning Clinical Law Review 14(1):143-193 Barton K & Maharg P (2006) ‘E-simulations in the wild: interdisciplinary research, design and implementation of simulation environments in legal education…
New agency for quality enhancement in higher education: UKCLE response
and this is an essential element of the professionalism identified in the core characteristics of the Academy. These core strengths of the LTSN fit well with the conception of quality enhancement as a developmental, responsive process. Within this we are keen to encompass stra…
Law school and the making of the law student into a lawyer
aspirations scope – lawyers and their professionalism, the law’s relation to justice, morality and other social phenomena, expectations of legal education The main reasons the students put forward for studying law were money, job security and altruism. The majority…
Education for sustainable development: what does it mean for legal education?
as important for employability, effective professionalism, economic performance and social wellbeing. What does this mean for the law curriculum? Law graduates are well represented at senior levels in government, business and the legal profession. They are involved in determ…
Using SIMPLE at the University of Warwick School of Law
aspect that worked best was the sense of professionalism the students got from working in SIMPLE, and as such its introduction to the module was regarded overall as a success by both staff and students. However, key elements of skills development remained central – in part…
Vocational Teachers Forum
(Glasgow Graduate School of Law) The Tao of Professionalism – Bridgit Burke (Albany Law School, USA) Vocational Teachers Forum IV VTF IV, held on 8 January 2005 at the University of Warwick, had the theme of collaboration and partnership. The following papers are …
Keynote speakers at 2008 Conference
renewed its focus on learning and teaching professionalism and the quality of the student experience, the current fraught reality for all – academics and students alike – is that we need to be more effective and efficient in our daily practices and educational engage…
Teaching legal ethics: references
“firm” are lawyers’ perceptions of professionalism?’ Legal Ethics 8(2):265 Duska R & Whelan M (1977) Moral development: a guide to Piaget and Kohlberg Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Evans A & Palermo J (2005) ‘Zero impact: are lawyers̵…
Look it up before you leap: guiding students across the academic-vocational legal resources divide
achievements, enthusiasm for the law and emergent professionalism. However, the students’ accounts suggested that the library can be a site for conflict and the classroom one for competition. Negative and passionate stories recounted by students about their research habits…
Research and reaction: bodies and PCs
number of aims was to develop students’ professionalism by encouraging responsibility for their own learning. During this time the School conducted surveys into students’ attitudes to these classes. Questionnaires showed them to be less popular than tutor-led clas…
Further reading on clinical legal education
Dickson J (2001) ‘Teaching towards a new professionalism: challenging law students to become ethical lawyers’ Legal Ethics 127 Rice S (1996) A guide to implementing clinical teaching method in the law school curriculum Sydney: Centre for Legal Education Schrag P …
New opportunities, but where's the will (or the money)?
an Academy to promote academic teaching professionalism. It is doubtful whether law schools are in a 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…
An introduction to judicial review: the estate agent's problem
EEAA’. This is the accepted hallmark of professionalism in the sector. In return, affiliated firms promise to employ only such persons as have been granted Fellowship of the EEAA or persons likely to gain Fellowship after a probationary period, to provide ongoing high qual…
Practice relevant legal education: lessons from the evolving 'City' Legal Practice Course
or is this feature of traditional legal professionalism likely to be lost? (And would its loss really matter in light of the changing role of professions in society?) We suggest there is much more work to do to get to grips with the challenges of making legal education relevant…
Papers and posters presented at the 2010 conference
Kent) International website for teaching ethics and professionalism – Charlotte Alexander (Georgia State University, USA), Nigel Duncan (City University) & Paul Maharg (then University of Strathclyde) Perspectives on professional formation: apprenticeship, pu…
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