Paper Submission

The Organising Committee of the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Law "Directions in Legal Education" is now inviting paper submissions to be presented at the conference (3-4 June 2016) for the following specific themes and panels:

• Role(s) of the law school: the teaching of law as a discipline; current limitations and challenges faced by the university as an institution; the impact of prior reviews of legal education.
• Curriculum design & evidence based learning: designing and implementing elective courses; evidencing best practice; research methods; the role of data; measuring "success" in teaching and learning; assuring programme quality.
• Experiential learning: clinical legal education; externships; simulation activities; mooting.
• Training for the profession: professional legal education; the academic/vocational divide; the risks/rewards of separation; the extent of engagement with the legal profession; making degrees relevant; the role of lawyering skills; when soft skills should be taught; the changing workplace.
• Sociological perspectives on legal education: community perspectives; feminist perspectives; issues of 'diversity'.
• Internationalising legal education: collaborative programmes; foreign exchange; global and local trends; cultural resistance.
• Innovation & classroom technology: opportunities and hurdles technology brings; 'flipped classrooms'; micro-modules; MOOCs; remote-learning; e-platforms; podcasts; Apps; simulated clients.
• Assessment & evaluation: formal and informal methods of staff teaching evaluation; methods of student assessment; student and staff participation in standard-setting.
• Student perspectives: students' attitudes to new teaching ideas; exploring the impact of teaching on students' professional lives.
• Language and learning: the challenges of a bilingual, multi-cultural audience; techniques and tools for improving understanding.
• Directions in legal education: which way next? The future of legal education; law firm training vs classroom-based training; the Woo Review in Hong Kong.