All persons interested in Clinical Legal Education, be they academic or practitinovers, government officials or NGO activists, are encouraged in and apply for positions as speakers. Papers are expected to provide an Asian perspective or adopt an international/comparative approach to the listed the following topics:
Themes:
- Experiential learning: clinical legal education; externships; simulation activities; mooting.
- 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.
- Training for the profession: professional legal education; 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; 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.
Feel free to circulate this call for papers to friends, colleagues and others who may have an interest in the topic.