Response and responsibility

4th Annual Conference of the Learning in Law Initiative

11 January 2002, Coventry TechnoCentre

Law teachers braved the post festive season blues and gathered in Coventry for the fourth year in succession for LILI 2002. In addition to the papers and sessions listed below, Tom Halliwell, one of the contributors and a first timer at LILI, ruminates on the absence of 'real' lawyers at this and other conferences.

Keynote speakers

• A place for ethics in the legal syllabus? - Lord Justice Potter, Chair of the Legal Services Consultative Panel
• Higher education futures: implications for law teaching - Professor Diana Tribe, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Hertfordshire

Papers from the conference

• A career in the legal profession: worth getting into debt for? - Mike Cuthbert, University College Northampton
• Autonomy and the ability to learn: making the transition to higher education - Penny Childs and Jill Spencer, University of Plymouth
• Legal education in France and England: a comparative study - Andrea Nollent, Sheffield Hallam University
• Personal and intellectual development of students - David Grantham, Coventry University
• Responsible facilitation of group-based legal education: a framework from management education - Peter Morgan, University of Bradford
• Revalidation, validity and the tensions between - Chris Gale, Leeds Metropolitan University
• Statutory drafting: a learning tool - John Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University
• Student retention in higher education - Jane Johnson, Coventry University
• Unseen assessment feedback - Matthew Weait, Open University
• Using empirical research methods in legal education - Pat Leighton, University of Glamorgan
• Where will all the lawyers go? Reflecting on the demand for the end-product of legal education - Tom Halliwell, solictor and notary