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The culture of legal education in France from a comparative viewpoint: perspectives for a legal education in the EU

quality assurance”. Legal education in France has traditionally been the exclusive domain of universities, although the 21st century has brought about a number of transformations. The republican ideal of providing higher education to all school leavers who have obtained …

Teaching French law in England: from cultural clashes to inventive integration

double degree experience between England and France: a contribution to an integrated European legal education’ (European Journal of Legal Education 4(1):3-18). Coincidentally, a total of four papers at the Learning in Law Annual Conference 2009 explored the implications …

Good people speaking well: legal education through modern languages

that it permits the student to study law in France. The value of studying a foreign legal system is unquestionable and well documented, as is the benefit of fluency in a foreign language, however many (although not all) such degree programmes in fact involve students in the stud…

Dual legal education: teaching and learning in law with French law degrees

support for the students when they are in France – there are some withdrawals because of language difficulties. There is a perception that when students go abroad they pick up the language they need, but they need legal French as well as conversational French. Arrangements…

Selling fragrances on the Internet: an e-commerce negotiation

challenging to involve students from both France and the UK in the same project. In October 2000 we decided to develop a case study bringing together students from the LLM in International Economic Law at Warwick (directed by Andrew Clark) and the Business Law Programme of EDH…

Towards the death of French law schools?

describes developments in legal education in France. On 7 June 2005 Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg approved an agreement with the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (also known as Sciences-Po Paris), enabling students from the latter to follow only one semester …

Papers presented at 2009 Conference

2 The culture of legal education in France from a comparative viewpoint: perspectives for a legal education in the EU – Ruth Sefton-Green (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France) Teaching French law in England: from cultural clashes to inventive integration?…

Multilateral negotiations as a forum for student role play

representative of the Central Bank of Slovenia, or France, or Greece. Each player was given a brief of what was expected from the negotiations. Because of the numbers of participants it was necessary to ‘team up’, with two students representing each of the six nation…

Using oral assessment to improve student learning in law

and assessed at various universities in France. Her interests lie in comparative law, legal culture and legal education.…

Enquiring Minds: strategies for promoting (better) research, autonomy and deployment of skills at level 3

programmes in Sweden, Spain, Poland and France. The team mentioned other benefits to students besides the development of skills and information literacy – how confidence improves when work is ‘showcased’ and disseminated among the community of researchers, a…

Teaching environmental law, ethics and sustainability - case study

countries, including the USA, Malaysia, Spain, France and Italy. Mode of delivery Teaching consists of lectures, whole group discussions and group debate, based around 5 × 3 hour blocks: lectures – at this level taking the form of Socratic style discussion …

More humane but less human?

Vanuatu and a visiting lecturer in Fiji, France, Malaysia and Singapore.   Sue has taught most subjects across the undergraduate curriculum during her academic career. Her research interests include comparative law, human rights, property and social change and development, and …

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The UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) was established in January 2000 with the aim of promoting the development of learning and teaching in law at both the academic and vocational stages. We work with the legal education community with the aim of improving the student lear…

UKCLE Advisory Board

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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…

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UKCLE monitoring and evaluation

UKCLE evaluation 2009-10 The UKCLE evaluation strategy aims to reveal the extent to which UKCLE has been successful in enhancing learning and teaching in law. Qualitative and quantative data is collected against the Higher Education Academy evidence of success framework on an …

UKCLE strategy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

UKCLE’s strategy for supporting legal education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland includes a Nations Fund dedicated to supporting activities of a country specific character. We are developing areas of our website to showcase developments in Scotland, Wales and Northe…

UKCLE networking

UKCLE works with a number of associations, networks and interest groups. Our targets for networking include: development of links within the UK and internationally development of expertise/groups around priority areas support for cognate organisations and networks De…

UKCLE reports

UKCLE produces a range of reports as part of the reporting requirements of the Higher Education Academy and UKCLE’s Advisory Board. These include: Annual report Annual operational plan and budget 5 year strategic plan, the current one running from 2008-13. For …

Consultation on deferral of call to the Bar - UKCLE response

In July 2006 the Bar Standards Board (BSB) issued a consultation paper on deferral of call to the Bar – the UKCLE response is given below. The consultation paper identified a number of policy and regulatory issues affecting entry to the profession that might be influence…

Legal education in the UK

This report was compiled in October 2001 to provide baseline data on legal education. It provides background information on the provision of legal education in the UK, details the conclusions of recent reports and surveys, identifies pockets of innovation and finally looks at th…

Revised law subject benchmark statement: UKCLE response

In August 2006 the Quality Assurance Agency issued a draft law subject benchmark statement for consultation – the UKCLE response is given below. The new law subject benchmark statement was released in December 2007. Question 1: Overall, does the revised subject benchma…

A new framework for work-based learning: UKCLE response

In August 2006 the Law Society of England and Wales launched the next phase of consultations on its training regime in its consultation on a new framework for work-based learning – the UKCLE response is given below. Under the proposals the training contract could be redu…

The team

Staff Sefton Bloxham, Senior Teaching and Learning Advisor Paul Cockrell, Technical Support Developer Melanie Hughes, Administrative Assistant Danielle Lysaght, Centre Manager Shaheen Mansoor, Research Assistant Hansa Surti, Events Coordinator Sarah Stacey, Info…

Danielle Lysaght

Centre Manager Danielle’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7652 3117 Mobile: 07824 540709 Email: danielle.lysaght@warwick.ac.uk About Danielle Danielle took up the post of Centre Manager in June…

Hansa Surti

Events Coordinator Hansa’s contact details UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Telephone: 024 7657 5219 E-mail: h.surti@warwick.ac.uk About Hansa Hansa joined UKCLE in January 2001. She has particular responsibility for UKCLE…

Jane Holder

ESD Consultant Jane Holder is Reader in Environmental Law in the Centre for Law and Environment, Faculty of Laws, UCL. She was appointed as UKCLE consultant for education for sustainable development (ESD) in September 2009. Jane’s research centres upon the regulatio…