I was sorry to miss the latest Westminster Legal Policy Forum (WLPF) event in London on 5 November, but unfortunately I was otherwise occupied in the southern hemisphere. The event was timely, given that the SRA has recently published its consultation on its draft competences and the BSB have also just given us some further […]
I spent a fascinating day at the State Library of Victoria on friday hearing about the ARC-funded ‘Minutes of Evidence’ (MoE) Project.The MoE website describes the project in these terms: It is a unique collaboration between researchers, education experts, performance artists and community and government agencies that seeks to promote greater awareness of the effects of settler […]
I delivered my own paper in the final set of parallel sessions last Saturday. Entitled âLawyering in liquid times: Values and professionalism in an age of uncertaintyâ, it took Zygmunt Baumanâs concept of liquid modernity as a framework for reflecting on changing values of legal professionalism. The paper focused on three problem areas which I […]
At Stanford University for the fourth International Legal Ethics Conference, hosted by Stanford Law School and the Center for the Legal Profession. The main conference started yesterday. There has been a fair amount of discussion and debate about legal ethics education, including a plenary panel yesterday morning on whether legal ethics should be a required […]
As I mentioned in the last post, I was in Keele at the beginning of last week for the first two days of the Centenary Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars. It was a good event – a high quality Practice, Profession and Ethics section meeting organised by Hilary Sommerlad, and socially too an […]
I was up in Edinburgh this weekend, having been invited by Zenon Bankowski to be a commentator (along with Tony Bradney) on papers that he and Maks Del Mar had written for the opening of their conference, Beyond Text in Legal Education. The conference was the final event in a series of activities that have […]
I’m in the midst of busy bout of conferencing having flown back on Monday evening from two days at the Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Conference in Amsterdam, to drive up to Leicester yesterday morning for the Socio-Legal Studies Association bash, which runs till Thursday at de Montfort University – so four nights away from […]
The 2009 LILAC conference started at Warwick today with just over 200 delegates registered – a new record attendance! It is a packed programme, but here I just want to offer some preliminary and pretty much ex tempore thoughts on the keynote address. Professor Ian Ward of Newcastle University gave an engaging, often entertaining and […]
… to the 2009 UKCLE Annual Conference at Warwick. I’m looking forward even more than usual to this one. The team at the Centre have worked incredibly hard to pull it together and the programme looks extremely interesting. There are quite a few ‘new faces’ lined up (not that it isn’t good to see the […]
Just back from a day in London at a one day conference organised by three enterprising PhD students at Queen Mary. The theme was “Legal academics: Spectators or Players?” and the organisers had got a really interesting group of people together to discuss the role of legal academics and their relationship with legal practice. It […]
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