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Are we all going to the same place: pluralism and value driven legal education
Law School) considered the different roles values should play in informing curriculum design if legal education is to successfully engage and realise the full potential of students. Becky’s slides are embedded below, and you can also download a recording of the session a…
Why our approach to student engagement might be determined by our answer to the question: is law merely a business?
a service ethic and the role of student values and motivation in legal education. The paper introduces the US scholarship on “Cause Lawyering”, and suggests the importance of the work for legal education in the UK. Specifically the links between: Committed lawyers and…
Developing threshold concepts in legal education
dimensions of personal identity, emotions and values. Once students have crossed the threshold, there appears to be no going back. Work on threshold concepts to date suggests that the identification and use of such concepts in learning and teaching may serve to: create ne…
Professional competence: can it be taught? A workplace perspective.
knowledge, skills, behaviour, attitudes and values) is a term widely used in many professions and its attainment continues to stimulate strong and diverging opinions. It is widely accepted that over recent decades there has been a shift from ‘training’ to ‘learning’ in…
A few of my favourite things: three rules of thumb for module design informed by self-determination theory
encourages student reflection upon personal values it makes sense to give attention to factors that psychological research has indicated can improve student motivation and well-being. If successful such a congruence of content and administration should enhance the range and conf…
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…
Education for sustainability: do we have a choice? Conference paper
teachers, we transmit and develop enduring values through which a sustainable, democratic, fair and just society can be regulated, maintained and improved. We do it in part because it’s a job, but in large measure because this is worthwhile, indeed vital, for the kind of s…
National Teaching Fellowship Award 2004
also be asked to identify the motivating values for their decisions. This should help them in critical thinking, and provide an explicit link between the personal and the object of their study, which should enrich their contextual understanding of the laws and legal systems they…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
teaching and the development of professional values Papers from parallel sessions Adapting law school learning to the 21st century: constructing improved learning environments – Catherine Dunham and Steven Friedland (Elon University School of Law, USA) Back to t…
Research on a prescribed case study module
level and introduce undergraduates to the values and skills of research to establish a learning environment in which students are required to take responsibility for their intellectual development Building on modules studied at levels 1 and 2, seminars examine the nature o…
The future for legal education research
knowledge’ and ‘professional values’. There are thus six potential areas of activity and six ‘standards’, which loosely express an obligation to maintain core knowledge not just of one’s substantive field, but also of pedagogy, and of quality …
Culture shock: I don't understand what plagiarism means
the emphasis has shifted towards promoting values of academic honesty and integrity. One of the key recommendations of Juwah et al (2006) is that “international students should be made fully aware of and enabled to understand the concept of plagiarism from the western cons…
Using narrative and clinical approaches to teach ethics
teachers forms part of their ongoing choice of values and the construction of their identities as human beings and professionals that they can identify the ways in which socialisation has influenced the way they react and think evidence of the capacity to think independently…
Chair's report: Maureen Spencer
student engagement and reflection on personal values. In a highly interactive session the presenters invited us, the audience, to place ourselves in the position of the students. Sen’s dilemma of which child should be awarded a flute over which there was a dispute provided a v…
When and how should legal ethics be learned?
“awareness of and commitment to legal values and the moral context of law mandatory in undergraduate degrees” and specifying “outcomes” of such education. The report further recommended that if such discussions fail to reach consensus the Solicitors Regulation Authority …
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009: Concepts of culture in legal education
education – organising principles, values, attitudes and beliefs cultivating humanity in legal education – interdisciplinary approaches; the role of the affective domain in learning; ethics and morality cultivating legal education – reflection on and renewa…
A new sense of purpose: education for sustainability in law
is it appropriate to inculcate particular values? problems raised by a Western/Eurocentric perspective on this issue h4. How to include a sustainable development focus Respondents were asked to consider how they would respond to the challenges posed by a focus on sustainab…
Resistance to teaching legal ethics
students with the tutor’s own particular values, as students seek to imitate and impress their teachers A positive case for teaching legal ethics to undergraduates has been made by Chapman (2002), who argued that students’ capacities for moral reasoning are inhib…
Ethics dilemma 1
website sets out, explicitly, an ethics and values code which includes its commitments with respect to all stakeholders. Most of the business and some of the non-profit organisations involved in the working group also have public commitments to operating with integrity vis à vi…
Law school and the making of the law student into a lawyer
answers suggesting a conflict between personal values and the perceived professional values of lawyering were probed, while the second set of interviews focused on the reasons for different answers to the same questions in the two surveys, with a view to discerning the cause for…
Introduction of sustainability literacy into a company law module
sustainability, including key concepts and values in relation to company formation and management. At stage 2 this is expressed in the required ability of the learner to be able to demonstrate contextual knowledge and understanding of the principles, values and limitations of th…
Further reading on clinical legal education
London: Routledge Evans A (1998) ‘The values priority in quality legal education: developing a values/skills link through clinical experience’ 32 Law Teacher 274 Ewart D (1997) ‘Parkdale Community Legal Services: a dream that died’ 35 Osgoode Hall Law…
Chair's report: Tracey Varnava
a service ethic and the role of student values and motivation in legal education. Many will be aware that prospective law students are often drawn to the subject because of what might be seen as romantic notions about standing up for the underdog and championing justice. A revie…
The dangers of kryptonite: Living with imperfection in the teaching of Islamic law
including: lack of familiarity with underlying values and culture; boundaries and structure; variety of aims; variety of teachers; variety of audiences and diversity within audiences; language; similarities and differences (comparative law); and resources. It is easy to fall i…
Julian Webb
58(1):79-121 Burridge R & Webb J (2007) ‘The values of common law legal education: rethinking rules, responsibilities, relationships and roles in the law school’ Legal Ethics 10(1):72-97 Webb J (2006) ‘The “ambitious modesty” of Harry Arthur…
Ethics in the undergraduate curriculum: an international wiki community
In their paper at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009, Nigel Duncan (City University) and Clark Cunningham (Georgia State University, USA) presented some of the findings of an ongoing research project on the teaching of legal ethics as well as initial proposals for an …
Now We Are Ten
through teaching that we transmit knowledge, values, skills, an understanding of cultures, and, we hope, a lifelong love of learning. It is through learning and teaching that we have the opportunity to engage, as Luce Irigary observes, with the essential question of “what …
Plenary: Legal education and the legal services market
Julian Webb (UK Centre for Legal Education) abstract | presentation | biography This presentation was a plenary session at the 2010 conference: Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland Abstract The Legal Services Act 2007 is already bringing about substantial chan…
Education for sustainability: do we have a choice? Consultation paper
then be raised about the nature of law and values of law, in particular the extent to which lawyers are to be trained to be impartial and disinterested. Is it appropriate that law graduates should – if we have succeeded – be activists, passionate about improving the …
A European qualification framework for social sciences: how does law fit in?
procedures. Demonstrate knowledge of legal principles and values in a wide range of topics extending beyond the core curriculum. Demonstrate some in depth knowledge of specialist areas. Demonstrate critical awareness in the analysis of the legal order. Ability to identif…
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Legal Education and Scholarship: Past, present and future
This Workshop will explore theoretical and empirical aspects of legal education and scholarship, for example, values, culture, class, race, gender, diversity, globalisation, commodification, pedagogy, impact, political economy, academic freedom and stakeholders. …
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