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Centre for Legal Education Conference 2024

Satisfying stakeholders in legal education: How to pack everything in (including the kitchen sink)

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Conferences

Building on the success of previous conferences the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Law School is delighted to announce its sixth international conference.

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Event details

We invite participants from the whole range of legal education contexts.  This includes, for example, professional regulators and professional bodies; legal sector employers; researchers whose work has an impact on law students, law teachers or legal practitioners, librarians and information professionals; stakeholders in and users of research, psychologists, professional support lawyers; training principals and pupillage supervisors; CPD/CLE providers; academic, vocational and postgraduate course designers and teachers; research and other students/candidates; and young lawyers.  We also extend our welcome to participants from outside England and Wales. We welcome diversity and innovation in delivery.

We anticipate that sub-themes for this year’s conference will include:

  • Satisfying professional or other regulatory requirements.
  • Collaboration between educators and employers.
  • Collaboration between educators and learners.
  • Personalising the educational experience for learners.
  • Addressing the needs and interests of learners from different background and with different characteristics.

For enquiries about CPD accreditation, or for any other enquiries or suggestions, please contact the organisers at Centre for Legal Education.

On each of Monday to Thursday inclusive there will be an online session in the morning and another in the afternoon (UK time). Participation on Friday will be in person.

Proposals should be sent on the submission form to Centre for Legal Education before 7 February 2024. All proposals must be on this form and will be peer reviewed. Proposals that are not related to the overall topic or themes of the conference, in particular those based on unrelated substantive law topics, can, with regret, not be accepted.

NB: we expect that those whose proposals are accepted will a) positively confirm their attendance and b) also register as conference participants in the appropriate section or sections.  No charge is made for participation in the online section of the conference. A small fee will be charged for participating in the in person section.  Visa letters, where required, will be made available only after registration has been completed. We anticipate that papers, slides, bibliographies etc. will be published on the conference website after the event.

We also expect that one or more sessions can be reserved as “troubleshooting clinics” enabling those with interests in similar aspects of legal education to share good practice and address challenges in a friendly and collegial setting.  Suggestions of suitable topics for troubleshooting clinics are invited.

Further details

Papers and presentations from the previous conferences can be found on the Centre for Legal Education website.

Programme

All times are UTC +1

Monday 24 June 2024

14.15 - 15.00

(online)

Session 1

Welcome to the conference

István Erdős, University of Debrecen, Hungary

How the international convergence of common law and civil law affects legal education?

Chair: Jane Ching

Tuesday 25 June 2024

10.30 - 11.30

(online)

Session 2

Lucinda Bromfield and Gillian Sproule, BBP University, UK

SQE: A challenge and an opportunity

Mariia Domina, University of Lorraine, France

Why interdisciplinary research matters in law schools: a case study of financial markets law

Chair: Chris Ratcliffe

Tuesday 25 June 2024

14.30 - 15.00

(online)

Session 3

Olugbenga Damola Falade, University of Hull, UK

Law and learning from the Practitioners: A Realistic Collaborative Pedagogical

Chair: Jane Jarman

Wednesday 26 June 2024

12.00 - 13.00

(online)

Session 4

Zubair Ahmed Khan, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India

Integrative Approach of Law Clinics & Clinical Legal Education in Providing Legal Services: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

Kalyani Jayasekara, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka

Regulatory requirements for the Legal Education in Sri Lanka

Chair: Pamela Henderson

Wednesday 26 June 2024

14.30 - 15.00

(online)

Session 5

Fikayo Taiwo, Essex Law School, University of Essex, UK

Transitioning from Online/Blended Learning to In-Person Teaching after the Covid19 Pandemic: Assessing Impact on Student Engagement

Chair: Ryan Cushley-Spendiff

Thursday 27 June 2024

11.00 - 12.00

(online)

Session 6

Simon Best, Leeds Trinity University, UK

COIL Insights: Tailoring Legal Education for Global Stakeholder Approval

Elizabeth Williams, University of Surrey, UK

Theoretical Foundation – Trust in the Rule of Law

Chair: Auden Davies-Bright

Thursday 27 June 2024

14.30 - 15.00

(online)

Session 7

Maaike Geuens, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

AI and legal education: back to the drawing board? A Case Study in Academic Writing

Chair: Matthew Homewood

Friday 28 June 2024

10.30

(face to face)

Registration, coffee, tea
 

11.00 - 11.30

(face to face)

Session 8

Welcome and keynote

Professor Joshua Castellino

Chair: Pamela Henderson

 11.30 - 12.30

Session 9

Geo Quinot, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Transformational Legal Education 2.0

Jane Jarman and Callum Scott, Nottingham Law School, UK

“A Profound Sense of Mystery?” Navigating Competing Tensions in Clinical Legal Education.

Chair: Chris Ratcliffe

 

12.30 - 13.30

(face to face)

Lunch
 

13.30 - 14.30

(face to face)

Session 10

Victor Reyes, healingjudges.com, USA

Thriving as a Human Being: Tools to Better Connect with Ourselves, Mitigate Secondary Trauma and Better Serve our Communities.

Chair: John Rumbold

 

14.30 - 15.00

(face to face)

Session 11

Jennifer Spreng, Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School, USA

From Feedback Literacy to Evaluative Judgment:  Satisfying Stakeholders with a Pedagogy that Improves Students’ Academic Performance, Professional Capacities, and American “NextGen” Bar Examination Readiness

Chair: Matthew Homewood

 15.00 - 15.30Break
 

15.30 - 16.30

(face to face)

Session 12

John Rumbold and Paulo Karat, Nottingham Law School, UK

The Application of Mindfulness in legal education

Sanya Yadav, Bennett University, India and Hem lata, Nottingham Law School alumna

Educational Design & Development with collaboration for developed and developing countries.

Chair: Jane Jarman

 16.30 - 17.30

Session 13

Jenny Kemp, University of Leicester, UK

Addressing learner needs: how to help LLM students acquire discipline-specific vocabulary.

Chair: Pamela Henderson

 

17.30 - 17.45

(face to face)

Closing comments
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