Tagged Search
Pages (18)
Teaching students how to 'think like a lawyer': a comparative approach
Peter Wendel, Pepperdine University Peter’s session outlined a programme he has pioneered to help students from non-traditional backgrounds engaged in the struggle of ‘learning to think…
Selling fragrances on the Internet: an e-commerce negotiation
The genesis of a project is sometimes very simple – a discussion between Christophe Roquilly (EDHEC School of Management) and Abdul Paliwala (Warwick Law School) at the 2000 BILETA Conference a…
Introducing legal clinics in Olomouc: the application of common law clinical models in a civil law system
Vendula Bryxová and Maxim Tomoszek (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) are members of a team developing practical legal education methods in Olomouc. In this paper presented at Learning…
Teaching through proxy as a response to the internationalisation of legal education
legal studies outside their home country in overseas institutions or in-country from foreign providers has been staggering. Education has become a large service export industry – in terms of do…
Learning law in a global era
Keynote address by Harry Arthurs (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2007, exploring the impact of globalisation on the law curriculum and outlining the R…
Adapting law school learning to the 21st century: constructing improved learning environments
In this paper presented at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008 Catherine Dunham and Steven Friedland (Elon University School of Law, USA) advocate greater use of e-learning, particularly in the…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
Reports and links to papers on community at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: Lifelong learning: engaging students and teachers in legal education – Claire Macken (Deakin Univer…
Interactive learning in an eConfucius drama classroom
Amy Shee (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) presented an innovative pedagogy for passive students and conventional teachers based on interactive learning in a guided drama classroom. Down…
Doing diagnostics: accounting for progress in student communications and advocacy
Bonnie McAlister (Elon University, USA) considered the speaking characteristics of effective advocates and demonstrated a technique for use in assessing oral communication. An essential skill of…
Reforming the curriculum of the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at HKU: revolution or evolution?
Wilson Chow, Julienne Jen and Firew Kebede Tiba (University of Hong Kong) presented an account of the curriculum reform of the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at the University of Hong Kong. Th…
Avoiding pedagogy roadblocks to create advances in the delivery of legal education
Steven Friedland (Elon University, USA) presented some proposals for how to bridge the gaps between the teaching of theory and practice and promote a learning centric educational platform. Downl…
The emerging use of storytelling as an alternative teaching methodology
Michael Blissenden (University of Western Sydney, Australia) presented the findings of a three year teaching project which developed an alternative teaching methodology to the appellate case law m…
The Tao of Professionalism
Bridgit Burke, Albany Law School The following paper was submitted by Bridgit to Vocational Teachers Forum on 6 January 2006. Unfortunately Bridgit was not able to attend the conference, however sh…
Towards the death of French law schools?
In this article from the Autumn 2005 issue of Directions Emmanuel Guinchard (Northumbria University) describes developments in legal education in France. On 7 June 2005 Robert Schuman University o…
Current developments in legal education in Australia
In this article from the Autumn 2007 issue of Directions Mark Israel and Gary Davis (Flinders University, Australia) report on legal education in Australia, including the possible creation of an Aust…
Teaching in Tallinn: the post-modern law school?
In this article from the Spring 2003 issue of Directions Igor Gräzin, Dean of the Private Academy Nord Law School, Estonia, provides a perspective on the development of legal education in eastern Eu…
The three most important characteristics of the English legal system: accidents of geography as much as history
This article from the Spring 2008 issue of Directions is a summary of a paper presented by Roger Burridge (University of Warwick) at the International Association of Law Schools conference in October…
Challenges of teaching law to non-law students
In this article from the Summer 2005 issue of Directions Alice Christudason (National University of Singapore) puts forward some solutions to the challenges of teaching law to non-law students. Thi…
Comments
There are no comments at this time