Centre for Legal Education

Building collaborations locally -Applying a health justice partnerships model to law clinics (20th June)

This facilitated discussion by Dr Liz Curran of Australian National University will take place from 14.30 to 16.30 with post event informal discussion until 18.30.

The event will be of interest to those involved in clinical legal education but also to those in the advice, health and justice sectors.  Dr Curran will lead dialogue around the concept of multidisciplinary clinics to enhance student learning and to reach the socially excluded who trust community workers by allowing them to access legal advice through the health sector.  The objective of the event is to advance and build relationships and identify some actions with a view to broadening and operationalising relationships and modes of clinic interventions that might be useful.

The event is hosted by the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Law School and is free to attend.  Light refreshments will be available.  Places are limited so the organisers would appreciate it if anyone who has booked but is later unable to attend advises them of this so that the place can be released.

 

 

Alternative ways to approach legal problem solving and disputes to the adversarial process to seek justice (25th June)

This facilitated discussion by Dr Liz Curran of Australian National University will take place from 14.30 to 16.30 with post event informal discussion until 18.30.

The event will be of interest to academics and practitioners in the justice and conflict resolution sectors and particularly in family and domestic violence support, as well as those with a particular interest in problem-solving and restorative justice. Dr Curran will lead dialogue around alternative approaches to lawyering, including therapeutic, problem solving courts; neighbourhood justice centres, conflict conferencing, round table dialogue and facilitation; inquisitorial. It will focus on family law and areas of law that intersect with family law problems,  such as care and protection of children, family violence, self-representation, poverty flowing from separation and abuse that often emerge.

The objective of the event is to bring together a range of academics, professionals and practitioners to look at alternative options given recent universal acknowledgement of the harms, costs and complex processes of the adversarial system.  New approaches will be shared by experts in academia and practitioners that might be less problematic and traumatic for participants in the process. e.g. family law, institutional abuse, family violence and so on

The event is jointly hosted by the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families; and the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Law School and is free to attend.  Light refreshments will be available. Places are limited so the organisers would appreciate it if anyone who has booked but is later unable to attend advises them of this so that the place can be released.

 

New approaches to lawyering and the implications for legal education: equipping our students to meet the changing world (27th June)

This facilitated discussion by Dr Liz Curran of Australian National University will take place from 14.30 to 16.30 with post event informal discussion until 18.30.

The event will be of interest to students, academics, employers, regulators and professional bodies and careers advisors in the legal sector and in sectors where a legal background is an advantage. Dr Curran will encourage participants to share teaching experiences and innovations that meet the needs of students and move them into employability in the modern age.

The event is hosted by the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Law School and is free to attend.  Light refreshments will be available. Places are limited so the organisers would appreciate it if anyone who has booked but is later unable to attend advises them of this so that the place can be released.