Centre for Legal Education

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 (May 2013): fifth NLS learning and teaching conference

This Newsletter summarises the Nottingham Law School’s 5th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference on 14th May 2013. Andrea Nollent, Dean of Nottingham Law School, opened the conference by challenging the audience to consider the future of legal education, of law jobs, of training, and of our role in that future, locally, nationally and internationally. Notwithstanding […]

LEG Newsletter (October 2014): academic posters for staff and students

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 autumn meeting focussed on academic posters, both for staff and as an activity for students […]

MURRAY R and EDWARDS H, 2022, ‘Legal Tech and Sustainability’

Murray R and Edwards H, ‘Legal Tech and Sustainability’, Teaching Legal Education in the Digital Age (Routledge 2022) Do students know why firms are using legal tech? If students do not understand the “why” – teaching and assessing digital skills simply becomes one more example of a hoop through which a student must jump to […]