Positive Legal Education: Flourishing Law Students and Thriving Law Schools

Redirecting Legal Scholarship in Law Schools

Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education

ENCOURAGING HUMAN RIGHTS TEACHING IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND OTHERCOMMON LAW COUNTRIESMeera MathweLLM StudentIndian Law Institute, New Delhi, India Human rights, as universally accepted rights, create accountability against all kinds of dejure and de facto discrimination. The human development and prosperity are possible onlywhen rights are given its due significance. Histo...

Digital Evidence Education in Schools of Law

An examination of State of Connecticut v. Julie Amero provides insight into how a general lack of understanding of digital evidence can cause an innocent defendant to be wrongfully convicted. By contrast, the 101-page opinion in Lorraine v. Markel American Insurance Co. provides legal precedence and a detailed consideration for the admission of digital evidence. An analysis of both cases leads ...

O13: Positive Education and Flourishing Schools: Strategies for Building Well-Being and Resilience in Students and Staff

Positive education focuses on helping students not only achieve academically, but also to thrive. This workshop will consider what well-being and flourishing is and how well-being science applies to education. Core constructs and positive interventions that can be used with individuals, groups, and organizations to build well-being and resilience will be explored. Specific activities that can b...

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Theory at Law Schools

Currently, Artificial Intelligence and Law is an interdisciplinary field somewhere on the border between Computer Science and Law. For many reasons, this interdisciplinarity hampers its further development and the transfer of its results into both legal theory and legal practice. In this position statement, we argue that AI and Law should become part of legal theory, or rather a “school” of leg...