Centre for Legal Education

Intellectual Property Awareness education for inventor-entrepreneurs in Iceland

Founded by Dr Bola Olabisi FRSA, the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GlobalWIIN) is a unique group founded to support entrepreneurial women making worldwide impact.  It celebrated its 25th anniversary at the prestigious Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland on 6-7 September 2023.  The event’s inspiring motto “WOMEN4SOLUTIONS & SUSTAINABILITY” embraces a […]

Judith Welch Wegner (1950-2021)

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Professor Welch Wegner, a member of our international advisory group.  We first met Judith as the inspiring keynote speaker at our first international conference and have such fond memories of her.  We were honoured to have known her and to have been inspired by her. […]

Land Registration politics and law reform

Nottingham Law School is planning to respond to two consultations concerned with land registration. One is the concerned with a proposal to sell the Land Registry services to a private company, and the other is to update the Land Registration Act 2002. Land registration is a vital part of our land law. When it works […]

Launch of the Law Teacher’s special edition on Legal Education for Wellbeing: Design, Delivery and Evaluation

This will take place on 4th April, online at 4pm (UK time). Chaired by Emma Jones and Caroline Strevens (co-guest editors). Speakers will include Chris Ashford and Jess Guth (The Law Teacher Editors) and special edition authors Ursula Cheer, Michael Fay, Graham Ferris, Hannah Gibbon-Jones, Nigel Jones, Anne Macduff (pre-recorded video), Yvonne Skipper, Alison Turnbull, […]

Legal Education Development Initiative in Egypt

Guest post by Judge Taher Aboueleid, member of the CLE international advisory committee In a long journey studying law in Europe since 2012, from Turin in Italy to Frankfurt, Brussels, The Hague and beyond.  I have been lucky to learn and gain such a great experience in some western European legal institutions. The experience of […]

More on the NLS Client Interviewing Competition 2017/2018

The client interviewing competition continued with a training session taking place on Tuesday 17 October. Student competitors were briefed to access online materials to observe a series of interviews prior to the meeting in order to understand the broad concept of the interview and to model good practice. My focus for the training is to […]

Motivations and Experiences of International Law Students – 9th June 2023

Jane Ching and Azhin Omer have been working over the past 18 months on a project funded by the Society of Legal Scholars.  There is a considerable literature in the USA by scholars such as Ballakrishnen, Lazarus-Black and Silver on the motivations and experiences of incoming international students to the JD and LLM, but we […]

NLS Client Interviewing Competition 2017/18

The interviewing competition for NLS students has now commenced for 2017. An excellent opportunity for students to improve employability skills for law and non-legal professions. We are using our experience and expertise to train  students in order to  give them confidence in their own abilities to communicate effectively and with the necessary compassion and understanding […]

NLS Intellectual Property Research Group contribution to New Intellectual Property Education Book

The book launch of Teaching IP Law, Strategy and Management will take place on 21 June 2023.  The event is being hosted by University College London at UCL Laws, Bentham House, London. Dr Janice Denoncourt contributed a Chapter to the new book edited by Jacques & Soetendorp.  All three, and many of the books’ contributors are members of the European […]

Publication of Nottingham Law Journal 2018 Special Legal Education Edition

In 2015, a special edition of the Nottingham Law Journal celebrated the outputs of our 2014 international conference, Value of Legal Education. We are delighted to continue this tradition in the newly published Volume 27(2).  This is guest edited by Pamela Henderson and our Visiting Professor, Pat Leighton, provided the editorial. Contributions from the UK, […]