Legal education – Page 8 – My Conversations

05/09/2018

SLS Day 2

SLS Day 2 commenced after a pretty poor night’s sleep. It needed to be good. Day one set the bar pretty high (oops, already used that pun on Twitter yesterday – can I get away with it twice given that it’s not quite as obvious a pun unless you read the tweet and/or my account… Continue reading

Conferences, Legal Education and Training, Uncategorized

Academics, Acccess to Justice, anxiety, Education, ethics, Law, Learning, Legal education, legal history, Mental Health, Research, resilience, rule of law, students, teaching, well being

05/09/2018

Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) conference Day 1

I have not been to a Society of Legal Scholars conference for some time. I was looking forward to it. I was particularly excited to be able to go to all of the conference rather than just the half in which my paper was scheduled. I am doing 2 papers in the Legal Education section… Continue reading

Conferences, Equality/Diversity, Legal Education and Training, Uncategorized

Barristers, Conference, Law, Legal education, legal professions, LGBTQ, Research, Society of Legal Scholars, thinking

23/05/2018

The one where city firms are good at diversity and the SQE is a good thing

‘A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one’s own’ – says Wikipedia. Well today I found myself in one. The escalator from the ground floor to the basement of Kings Place in London is a portal between universes. That really is the only explanation for what happened today – at least the only… Continue reading

Conferences, Equality/Diversity, Legal Education and Training, Uncategorized

#LegalCheek, Diversity, equality, Law degree, Law school, Legal education, legal professions, SQE