In June this year, as a Nottingham Trent University Senior Fellow, I facilitated three workshops/roundtables at Nottingham Law School. The overarching themes for the three workshops was around the imperatives for ‘New Approaches to Lawyering’, to better meet the needs of community into the future. Each session had a very different focus and participant group. […]
The formal launch of the Centre for Legal Education was in May 2012. Back when COVID and SQE were just random sets of letters you might pull out of the Scrabble bag. When the Legal Education and Training Review investigation had just started. So we are delighted to find that we have grown up and […]
On June 07, 2019 several members from the Centre for Legal Education, NLS along with other legal professionals, convened to discuss Health Justice Partnership in Legal Education. Collaboration, especially between social workers and lawyers was emphasized as a more holistic approach in meeting the growing complexities of legal challenges, which confront us in some of […]
Jane Ching and Azhin Omer have funding from the Society for Legal Scholars to investigate: whether the criteria found in the USA on the motivations and career aspirations of international law students are mirrored in England and Wales. the relative importance to international law students of the three dimensions of: knowledge and competence for practice […]
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 […]
The Law Teacher has reviewed CLE member Dr Janice Denoncourt’s book Intellectual Property, Finance and Corporate Governance (1st ed. 12 April 2018) recommending it as a valuable and authoritative learning resource for teaching intellectual property (IP) law and management. There is now a go-to text to improve our understanding of finance and corporate governance when introducing students to these […]
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. […]
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 […]
Many legal education providers and would-be providers are grappling with how to respond to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). How they will respond will depend upon many things, including their ‘traditional’ market, their staff base, and their institutional structures to name but a few. This guest post by Matthew J. Homewood, head of department at […]
Helen Taylor, a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, shares her thoughts on learning design in the face of a global pandemic. Writing a new module at any time is hard. Alignment of the module outcomes to the teaching materials and the assessment is vital but seems to take me a lot of time. Perhaps, […]