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legal education
law schools and courses in Australia
- College of Law
- Council of Australian Law Deans
- National Judicial College of Australia
- Community legal education (CLE) eg http://www.legalaid.qld.gov.au/About-us/Corporate-publications/Community-Legal-Education-strategy
- Continuing Legal Education Association of Australasia
- Australian Law Students Association
- Australian Advocacy Institute
- Australian Young Lawyers Forum
- Law School Toolbox – US site but lots of good resources for new law students
See blogs below for useful resources for law students
- Australasian Law Teachers Association
- Australasian Professional Legal Education Council
- the faculty lounge – US site but lots of good resources for faculty
pedagogy
We believe sedentary classrooms should be a thing of the past,
“The classroom is a relic, left over from the Industrial Revolution.”
edtech
Edtech startup ecosystem in Australia
Some startups in Oz impacting education
rankings
university rankings by students
The Conversation article about rate your professor and more with commentary and links to various sites
on the future of universities
Universities Australia Jul 2016 Higher Education: Where to from here?
Articles from The Conversation on the Future of Higher Education
2015 Podcast from the University of South Australia
2014-2015 Government paper, Driving Innovation, Fairness and Excellence in Australian Higher Education
2014 Go8 Report on Demand for Higher Ed in Australia
American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
2015 UQ report on Future trends in teaching and learning
2008 Chapter by Glyn Davis The Future of Australian Higher Education
careers in law
Australia
- LegalVitae, positions for law students, an initiative of Law Society of NSW
- Beyondlaw (find out more about the founders of beyondlaw at IdeasHoist)
- rrlaw.com.au – Rural law jobs
- Artslaw.com.au
- Australian Law Students Association
- Survive Law
- Australian Pro Bono Centre
- Ethical jobs/human rights
- Refugee Legal
- Government job guide
- Law Society information Victoria
- NSW – great info esp good links for public see also StudentHub
- for young Australians
- General legal information for young Australians LAWSTUFF is dedicated to providing legal information to children and young people in Australia
university career services offices – many of these restrict access to students and recent alumni or similar
general law careers, esp academic
- highered jobs
- Timeshighercom
- jobstheguardian.com
- AcademicKeys
- Nottingham Law School – LawCareers.Net
- law.Columbia.EDU/lawteaching
talking about the law
tools & skills
Some tools to help guide career choices
- Designing your life by Bill Burnet and Dave Evans
- The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
- https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
- The future of work is not jobs
- The Trickster’s Hat by Nick Bantock, delightful resource for getting your creativity on
lawtech
- Legal Technology is not all about tablets, cloud and getting there first
- Legal IT and agility
- http://www.lawtech.com.au/subs-pending/
- https://www.lawtechsummit.com.au/
- http://www.thelawtechalliance.com/subscribe
- legalgeek
smart contracts
2016 AFR article Blockchain ‘smart contracts’ to disrupt lawyers
some US law schools offering courses in lawtech etc
- Columbia Law School – Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic
- Duke University School of Law – Law Tech Lab
- Georgetown University Law School – The Program in Legal Technologies
- Harvard – Center on the Legal Professionand LawLab (housed at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, but with many collaborators)
- Hofstra University School of Law – Law, Logic, and Technology Research Laboratory
- IIT Chicago Kent College of Law – Center for Access to Justice & Technology and The Law Lab
- University of Miami School of Law – Law Without Walls
- MIT – Computational Law Research and Development
- Michigan State University College of Law – Legal RnD
- Northeastern University School of Law – NuLawLab
- Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law – Lunsford Academy for Law, Business, and Technology
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Concentration
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Innovation Practice Institute
- Stanford – CodeX The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and the Legal Design Lab
- Suffolk University Law School – Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation and Concentration
- Vanderbilt University Law School – Program on Law & Innovation
- Vermont Law School – Center for Legal Innovation
SMM info & tools
blogs
youveenteredlawland – an excellent blog with informative posts and useful links by a ‘junior corporate lawyer in a top-tier firm’
Melissa Castan~Legal Education – more great information and links from Monash lecturer, Melissa Castan
thetimeblawg – tech, social media and law
more to read
On equal participation in the legal education system: Commentary: The Implications of Being a Society of One, 20 U.S.F. L. Rev. 503 (1985-1986)
Executive education – stackable approaches toward learning
Field, R; Duffy, J; Huggins, A, Lawyering and Positive Professional Identities, LexisNexis, 2014
Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit
The Fissured Workplace by David Weil
plus ça change
- Clark, Charles E. (1942) ‘The Function of Law in a Democratic Society’ 9 University of Chicago Law Review 393.
- Frank, Jerome N. (1933) ‘Why Not a Clinical Lawyer-School?’ Faculty Scholarship Series. 4109.
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4109 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1881) The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
Innovation in Legal Ed
- Lamparello, Adam (2016) The Integrated Law School Curriculum, 8 Elon Law Review 407.
Classics
- Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman, 1974, ‘overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology, became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from work under capitalism’
- Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
general interest
maybe edifying, maybe just for fun, etc
LIFE, ANIMATED, the story of Owen Suskind
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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