Directions in Legal Education
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Each issue of Directions includes a news roundup with the latest developments in law and education, features on people in legal education and updates on forthcoming events and UKCLE projects. You can also read feature articles from previous issues.
Autumn 2009 issue
Download the full Autumn 2009 issue (PDF file, 16 pages, 6.25 MB).
Contents:
- A more hit than miss report? - editorial by Julian Webb, UKCLE Director, on the select committee report on higher education in England
- A European qualification framework for social sciences: how does law fit in? - Julian Lonbay discusses progress made in developing an overall qualifications framework for legal education in Europe
- Beyond text in legal education - Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar report on the values and experiences uncovered by the process of moving beyond text in law and legal education
- The International Association of Law Schools forges ahead. Where are the UK law schools? - Roger Burridge argues the case for greater UK involvement
The news section includes a summary of the report from the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions and updates on the ethics report prepared for the Law Society of England and Wales and the Diploma in Humanities and Social Science.
In the people section we offer our congratulations to the new National Teaching Fellows in law and give an update on the UKCLE team.
The events section has the latest news about LILAC10, UKCLE's annual conference, plus the usual listing of forthcoming events taken from UKCLE's events diary.
Centre projects includes updates on two projects:
- Access to legal work experience and its role in the (re)production of legal professional identity
- Evaluating SIMPLE's accessibility (extended version of the Directions article)
