News and events

Centre for Legal Education

The Centre for Legal Education host a number of conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the academic year. In 2012-2013 we will host four HEA, or HEA supported, workshops in Nottingham. Details of the forthcoming workshops are below.

Fishing for Values in Legal Education
Nottingham Law School are to host a workshop as part of the Teaching Legal Ethics – UK programme of workshops. This interactive workshop is focussed on ethics in the undergraduate curriculum and is titled:
Fishing for Values in Legal Education: why should I want to introduce ethics into the LLB - and what does ethics mean in this context?

The workshop is planned for Saturday 24 November. A full programme will be available shortly. For further details about November's workshop, or general information about TLE – UK contact Graham Ferris or Nigel Duncan.

NLS are grateful to the HEA for their support of the workshop. Due to the generosity of the HEA and NLS as host we are able to offer free attendance at the workshop, and a free evening meal on the Friday at a Nottingham restaurant, but places are necessarily limited.

Embedding Sustainability into the Undergraduate Law Curriculum
Nottingham Law School are to host a workshop on ‘Embedding sustainability into the undergraduate law curriculum' on Tuesday 11 December 2012. Adopting a very broad definition of sustainability, including social, economic and environmental, this workshop supports discussion about embedding sustainability-related issues into the law degree.

Taking a themed approach to the law subjects, there will be presentations and discussion about sustainability in law modules, loosely grouped into public law, obligations, international and property.

To find out more please visit The Higher Education Academy website.

Association of Law Teachers (ALT) 48th Annual Conference
The 48th ALT Annual Conference takes place at Nottingham Conference Centre on 24 - 26 March 2013. Full details of the event, call for papers, and booking form can be found on the ALT webpage.

Centre for Legal Education Launch
The Centre for Legal Education was successfully launched on 3 May 2012 with a lively Legal Education Debate and a stimulating forum with the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) research team. The event attracted legal practitioners from across the country and was the Centre was formally opened by Baroness Ruth Deech, chair of the Bar Standards Board.

Our Question-Time style debate, entitled "Visions of Legal Education" generated a lot of discussion on twitter and blog posts from academics and practitioners from universities across the UK.

In the LETR forum the research team elicited responses to a number of statements concerning legal education. You can view the statements and responses from the day and there is still time to make your views on legal education count by completing the LETR online survey.

You can read a full summary of the Legal Education Debate and explore our panel's visions or find out more about Legal Education and Training Review Forum here.

Recent Events and Conferences

HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2012. “Seriously, what are you doing here?” A discussion about student motivation and ideas to enhance the student experience. In: Nottingham Trent University Validation Services Bi-annual Conference, November 2012.
FERRIS, G and JOHNSON, N. 2012. Clinical Legal Education and the Policy Role of the Lawyer in Contemporary Practice. In International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference, Durham, July 2012.
FERRIS, G and HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2012. For Learning's Sake. In Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Oxford, March 2012.
FERRIS, G (with another). 2012. What does Theory add to the Experience of Legal Education. In Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Oxford, March 2012.
FERRIS, G. 2012. The Integration of Ethics into Legal Education. In Legal Education Section, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Bristol, September 2012.
FERRIS, G (with others) 2012. Why the common law of property is not about the distinction between obligations and property and how this insight can inform its teaching. In Property and Trusts Section, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Bristol, September 2012.
HENDERSON, P. 2012. Making CPD Fit for Purpose. In Legal Education and Training Review Symposium, Manchester, July 2012.
CHING, J (as member of LETR research team). Everybody Knows. In Legal Education and Training Review Symposium, Manchester, July 2012.
HUXLEY-BINNS, R., 2012. Communication and negotiation skills. In: National Law Students Forum, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 20-21 June 2012. Nottingham Trent University, with the Higher Education Academy.
HUXLEY-BINNS. R. 2012 "It's what you do with it that counts". Embedding skills into the law curriculum. In: Higher Education Academy Legal Education Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8 May 2012.
FERRIS, G. and JARMAN, J. 2011. Values, Pluralism, Intuition, and Consistency in Ethical Reason. In Workshop on teaching ethics in the law curriculum. US National Institute for the Teaching of Ethics and Professionalism and the City Law School, London, October 2011.
FERRIS, G. and HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2011. The role of Self-Determination Theory in achieving student engagement: a case study. In: Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Annual Conference, Nottingham, September 2011.
FERRIS, G. and JOHNSON, N. 2011. Lawyers and Rule Change: The ethics of lobbying. In: Society of Legal Scholars: 102nd Annual Conference: Law in Politics; Politics in Law. Cambridge, September 2011.
HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2011. Mooting. In: National Law Students Forum, UK Centre for Legal Education (Higher Education Academy), Birmingham, June 2011.
NOLLENT, A. 2011. The Experience of Mobility: Advantages and Disadvantages for students and universities. In: Symposium on Erasmus Programmes, University of Valencia, Spain, May 2011.
HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2011. Key note speech. “What's the Q for?” In: Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Cardiff, 18-20 April 2011.
CHING, J., 2011. Solicitors' CPD: time to change from regulatory stick to regulatory carrot . In: Association of Law Teachers: 46th Annual Conference: Crossing Borders: Legal Education United, Cardiff, 18-20 April 2011.
FERRIS, G., and HUXLEY-BINNS, R. 2011. "This is why I took a law degree in the first place. This is what I thought I would be doing. It is such hard work, but I am loving it." In: Association of Law Teachers: 46th Annual Conference: Crossing Borders: Legal Education United, Cardiff, 18-20 April 2011.