LETR: 5 years on
Links to Paul Maharg’s blog covering the recent events at the conference in Leeds: LETR conference: Paper session 1 LETR conference: Professional Panel LETR conference: Parallel papers 2
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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 […]
Online, on track: Designing IP teaching for online learning 8 July 2020 between 17.00 – 21.00 BST
In preparation for Autumn when IP courses will be taught mostly online IPAN, the UK Intellectual Property Awareness Network, (IPAN) www.ipaware.org and CIPU, the US Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) https://www.understandingip.org/ invite you to an international Zoom workshop hosted by City University of London. We will share good practice and practical tips in good time for the transition […]
Pathways to Empowerment
Dr Liz Curran, Research Impact Lead at Nottingham Law School, discusses ‘Pathways to Empowerment’: On Thursday 28 November 2021 a research evaluation report entitled Pathways to Empowerment recently authored by myself and my former colleague, Pamela Taylor-Barnett at ANU was launched on Zoom. It was commissioned by the Hume Riverina Community Legal Service and funded […]
Publication of NLJ 2018 Vol.1 Special Intellectual Property Law Education Edition
Volume 27(1) of the Nottingham Law Journal 2018 is edited by Dr Janice Denoncourt and features thematically linked articles in support of intellectual property (IP) law education and research. Dr Sabine Jacques (University of East Anglia) explores the use of gamification in IP law education. Peter van Dongen (Netherlands Patent Office) and Joe Sekhon (University […]
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, […]
Revisiting Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School for? 20 years on
Northumbria University and Nottingham Trent University held a successful Modern Law Review Seminar event on 17 June at Northumbria: ‘Revisiting Pressing Problems in the Law: What is the Law School for? 20 Years on’. The seminar was opened by Victoria Roper and Rachel Dunn and closed by Graham Ferris. Plenary speakers Professor Paul Maharg and […]
Save the date! NLS Centre for Advocacy, Friday 28 June 2019
Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 Years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 Nottingham Law School will host the third “International Advocacy Conference” on 28 June 2019. The Conference will bring together advocates, judges and academics from different jurisdictions and across disciplines to discuss and share best practice in the training of […]
Something must be done! Classifying legal education reviews.
There is, and always has been, a “crisis” in legal education. The nature of the crisis in one jurisdiction is, however, so often familiar to those outside it: concerns about cost, about access, about ethics, about practice-readiness affect us globally. It is an equally common response, it appears, to investigate and seek to address those […]