Finally sent off the last big batch of entries yesterday morning for a new law dictionary I’ve been editing. It’s been a mammoth task. The project’s been ongoing for over two and a half years, with a team of nearly twenty contributors. The editing process has taken up virtually all my spare time over the last six months, and then some; it certainly hasn’t left much time for blogging! It will be good to have it entirely finished, but there’s still a last few entries outstanding, some cross-checking and the proofs to be done. It has reached that stage now when it will just be sooo good to see it finished….
Category Archives: books
"Transforming legal education"
This modest little title belongs to an excellent book just published (Ashgate, 2007) by Prof Paul Maharg of Glasgow Graduate School of Law. Paul is one of the most innovative thinkers around on legal education and his work at Strathclyde on creating transactional learning environments (teaching through simulated legal transactions) is really world class. This book reflects on a lot of that experience, but does much more in terms of developing an alternative theory of legal education pedagogy – which incidently involves linking the construction of the legal realist curriculum at Columbia in the 1920s, ethics education at Edinburgh University in the eighteenth century; and the practices of the mediaeval “Glossators” of Roman Law!
Perhaps even more interesting is the experiment that goes with the book. Paul and a number of colleagues have just launched a wiki which will form the basis of a community of practice for what Paul calls the “Transforming Initiative”. I’ve just signed up to it, though blowed if I know quite what I’m going to do with it – yet! If you’re interested in the project, go to Paul’s Transforming Legal Education website – linked here
