Value vs values in legal education

3rd Annual Conference of the Learning in Law Initiative

5 January 2001, University of Warwick

What impact are developments in higher education having on the values involved in law teaching? The emphasis of LILI 2001 was the potential and pitfalls that recent developments in policy and the changing priorities in resources and technologies in law schools may hold for justice, ethics, access and equality in legal education.

Keynote speakers were Avrom Sherr, Woolf Professor of Legal Education at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and Suzanne Shale, Director of the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning and Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford.

Papers from the conference

• Challenging Ginsburg: the clicks and mortar route to education - Frances Burton, London Guildhall University
• Go forth and diversify - Stephen Migdal, University of the West of England
• Legal skills and multi-media: enhancing student learning - Paul Maharg, University of Strathclyde
• Making the transition to higher education: law student's first thoughts - Jill Spencer and Penny Childs, University of Plymouth
• Students as consumers: the importance of student feedback in the quality assurance process - Fiona Church, University of Derby
• Why students study law: student perceptions of the law degree - Liz Cassell, University of Essex