Lawyers v. Businessmen: Where Are the Bad Men? - Jotwell: Legal Profession.
Richard Moorhead reviews Parker et al's article, described here:
In the glamorous/murky/elite/financially rewarding world of commercial law is it clients or lawyers who are the bad guys? Put another way, does business corrupt law or do lawyers corrupt business? This is the question that lies at the heart of Parker, Rosen and Nielsen’s paper.
Neat for those teaching/thinking about teaching ethics. Read more [...]
10 Commandments of Lecturing | Inside Higher Ed.
these are kind of fun. A caffeinated hummingbird? Oh dear.
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Speaker's Corner: Time to train lawyers on cultural competence | Commentary | Law Times News.
Although the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal doesn’t explicitly use the exact phrase, the tone and substance of the decision indicate that cultural competency requires knowledge, skills, and attitudes and that the failure to be culturally competent isn’t just insensitivity but can result in a miscarriage of justice and a wrongful conviction. Read more [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS
No Place Like Home? Community, Identity and Exclusion in Law
CALT Conference 2012 – Montréal, Québec
May 23-24, 2012
The 30th anniversary of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides an opportunity to consider its impact on law and law teaching. The fundamental realignment of our communities was seen by some as a moment of great promise, and by others as a powerful instance of exclusion. With the benefit of three decades of lived experience, what lessons can we draw from 1982? How Read more [...]
CALT SCHOLARLY PAPER AWARD
In order to recognize the work of new scholars, CALT conducts an annual competition for scholarly papers which make a substantial contribution to legal literature. Any member of CALT holding an appointment at a faculty or department of law at a Canadian university is eligible to enter the competition within seven years of commencing the first such appointment.
An entry consists of the submission of a paper on a legal topic for review by a selection committee.
If Read more [...]
There has been a lot of discussion lately on academic forums about the wisdom of pursuing a tenure-track professorial career. Venerable publishing institutions like The Economist, Nature Magazine and The Chronicle of Higher Education have all weighed in on the subject, often in dire articles with titles like 'The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time’ and ‘Education: The PhD factory- The world is producing more PhDs than ever before. Is it time to stop?’. Meditations Read more [...]
From the newsletter of the amazing and now sadly closed UK Centre for Legal Education:
Ethics teaching on law degrees?
The legal profession is braced for a wave of change precipitated by the Legal Services Act 2007. In this feature Andy Boon takes a look at the implications for legal education of the drive to develop a more sophisticated understanding of professional ethics amongst legal practitioners.
via Ethics teaching on law degrees? at UKCLE. Read more [...]