Centre for Legal Education

CLE members’ activities

CHING, J., HENDERSON, P., 2016. Pre-qualification work experience

CHING, J., HENDERSON, P., 2016.  Pre-qualification work experience in professional legal education: report and appendices.  Solicitors Regulation Authority.  Available at http://www.sra.org.uk/sra/news/press/work-based-experience-research.page CHING, J., 2016.  Pre-qualification work experience in professional legal education: literature review.  Solicitors Regulation Authority.  Available at http://www.sra.org.uk/sra/news/press/work-based-experience-research.page

DENONCOURT, J., JARMAN, J., JOHNSON, N. and others, the Nottingham Creative IP Project

DENONCOURT, J., JARMAN, J., JOHNSON, N. and PALEY, E., 2016. Degree shows & displaying your creative work. Intellectual property notebook . Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University: Publications. ISBN 9780993111235 DENONCOURT, J., PALEY, E., JARMAN, J., JOHNSON, N., DAVISON, C. and CLARKE, P., 2015. The Nottingham intellectual property guide for creatives. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University: Publications. ISBN […]

FERRIS, G. 2016. Commitment to enhancing wellbeing or diminishing distress requires a willingness to collaborate: Why concern with wellbeing should not lead to academic proselytising

FERRIS, G. 2016.  Commitment to enhancing wellbeing or diminishing distress requires a willingness to collaborate: Why concern with wellbeing should not lead to academic proselytising.  In Association of LawTeachers Annual Conference, Northumbria University, 20-22 March 2016, Newcastle ALT paper 2016 SLS 2016

LEG Newsletter (November 2012): writing for professional publications

Despite a wide range of other competing commitments a group of 8 (plus our friendly neighbourhood press officer) gathered to discuss writing for professional publications. Many, many ideas were generated, going widely beyond the New Law Journal, Counsel or the Solicitors’ Journal. By the time we had finished we had several articles, a textbook, a […]

LEG Newsletter (February 2011): oral skills

A group of 13 filled the meeting on 21st February with a stimulating discussion on oral skills (mooting, interviewing, advocacy, conference, negotiation, mediation, presentations). So much so that we didn’t get as far as discussion of assessment of such skills. The latter has now acquired a short slot at the teaching and learning event and […]

LEG Newsletter (February 2015): ethics in academic legal education

The Legal Education Group is a discussion group, organised by the Centre for Legal Education but open to everyone (including, if your line manager says yes, subject administrators). It positively benefits from bringing together people from across the school. The spring meeting focussed on ethics and identity and was led by Graham Ferris. Graham began […]

LEG Newsletter (January 2011): materials distribution: pitfalls and practice

A group of 9 filled the meeting on 4th January with a detailed discussion, across a wide range of programmes and different experience, of “Materials distribution, pitfalls and practice”. This began with a discussion of the minima for electronic uploading for students but made us think about learning outcomes; what we are using materials for; […]

LEG Newsletter (June 2008) – inaugural meeting

The first meeting of the Nottingham Law School Legal Education Group was held on Monday 23rd June 2008. The LEG, led by Becky Huxley-Binns and Jane Ching, engages in research in legal education and as a result aims to raise the profile, internally and externally, of the teaching quality within Nottingham Law School. The group […]

LEG Newsletter (June 2011): third NLS learning and teaching conference

This Newsletter summarises the Nottingham Law School’s 3rd Annual Learning and Teaching Conference on 8th June 2011. Andrea Nollent, Dean of the Law School, opened the event with a welcome and introduction about the nature of teaching and learning. After a general discussion, Andrea emphasis that in the current higher educational climate, it is not […]