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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The fifth meeting of the Nottingham Law School Legal Education Group was held on Friday 27th November 2009. 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. This meeting […]
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 […]
Enhancing mathematical literacy to promote graduate employability poster. Poster presented by Louise Taylor at the 2013 SLSA conference. The global economic crisis has created a challenging legal graduate employment market. This has placed increased expectations on the Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) to deliver graduates who possess key transferable and employability skills, such as mathematical literacy. As […]
ROBSON, J., 2014. Criminal advocacy training after Jeffrey., International Advocacy Teaching Conference 2014, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 27-28 June 2014. In: International Advocacy Teaching Conference 2014, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 27-28 June 2014, Nottingham
WEBB, J., CHING, J., MAHARG, P. and SHERR, A., 2013. Setting standards: the future of legal services education and training regulation in England and Wales: the final report of the Legal Education and Training Review independent research team, June 2013. Research report for external body. Legal Education and Training Review. http://letr.org.uk/the-report/index.html