Cultural Cringe or Lessons for Australian Legal Education?

Lessons for medicine from legal education.

Retaining students in Australian higher education: cultural capital, field distinction

In the global phenomenon of widening participation policy in higher education, lower retention rates for students from less advantaged socio-economic circumstances have potential to undermine the social inclusion agenda of HE. This might be an issue in Europe but is not necessarily the case elsewhere. In this paper we consider statistical data on Australian university students from underreprese...

Multiculturalism and legal autonomy for cultural minorities

Does multiculturalism imply that certain cultural minorities – nomos groups, whose cultural conceptions extend in important ways into views about the law – should have forms of legal autonomy that go beyond normal multicultural accommodations such as exemptions and special protection? In other words: should we allow «minority jurisdictions» for multicultural reasons and give certain minorities ...

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

Lessons for ICT in Education

Getting IT Right with Education The Faculty of Education set out to analyze the ways in which schools in the Czech Republic were using ICT to enhance the quality of education. Besides identifying best practices and common use cases, the Faculty wanted to develop and demonstrate effective methodologies for measuring the positive impact of technology on learning processes and outcomes. Founded 13...