The news last week that the Australian National University (ANU) plans to close down its School of Legal Practice, probably in 2021, represents another body blow to the idea that professional legal training (PLT) can be in any way consistent with the mission of a research-leading university. ANU has long been an innovator in this […]
The Regulating Automated Legal Advice Technologies (RALAT) project is an initiative of the Melbourne Networked Society Institute, involving a team of researchers from law and computer science. Our first Discussion Paper, which aims primarily to map the field is available here. The paper classifies automated legal advice tools/technologies (ALATs) by reference both to function and intelligent capability. […]
Publication yesterday of the membership of the American Bar Association’s new think-tank on legal education has me hopeful that this could be a much more significant exercise (both for the US and in terms of benchmarking thinking internationally) than the last (2014) ABA Taskforce (which I blogged about here). I’m afraid that as a non-US […]
The NSW FLIP Inquiry (see my previous post for initial reaction) also recognises that disruption of law has implications for legal education and training. It therefore looks at the need for change in legal education in Chapter 6 of the Report. A warning now: for me this was the most disappointing feature of the whole […]
The Future of Law & Innovation in the Profession (FLIP) commission of inquiry took place last year as an initiative of The Law Society of NSW. Its final Report, available online here, which was published last month adds to the growing collection of recent, profession-led, inquiries into the future of legal services, including the American Bar […]
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