An International Interactive Resource to Support Learning in Legal Ethics Nigel Duncan Please log in to: http://www.transforming.org.uk/thewicki.htm , and click on the link below.

National Teaching Fellowship To develop a curriculum model and associated learning materials for addressing legal professional ethics in undergraduate and professional courses.

To develop a curriculum model and associated learning materials for addressing legal professional ethics in undergraduate and professional courses.

The context ‘… no amount of external regulation of professional practice will serve as an adequate substitute for the personal and professional values and standards that lawyers should internalise from the earliest stages of their education and training. Teaching in ethical values should include more than a familiarisation with professional codes of conduct and the machinery for enforcing them.’ Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct: First Report on Legal Education and Training, London , 1996 p. 17.

‘… no amount of external regulation of professional practice will serve as an adequate substitute for the personal and professional values and standards that lawyers should internalise from the earliest stages of their education and training. Teaching in ethical values should include more than a familiarisation with professional codes of conduct and the machinery for enforcing them.’

Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct: First Report on Legal Education and Training, London , 1996 p. 17.

Project activities Widespread reading Visiting university law schools with diverse learning approaches International survey of ethics teaching in law schools

Widespread reading

Visiting university law schools with diverse learning approaches

International survey of ethics teaching in law schools

Original dissemination plans A resource on the website of the UK Centre for Legal Education http:// www.ukcle.ac.uk/index.html

A resource on the website of the UK Centre for Legal Education

http:// www.ukcle.ac.uk/index.html

Current dissemination plans Paul Maharg: Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century , (Ashgate, 2007) A book which provides the foundation for an interactive web-based community of practice. Four sections: Experience Ethics Technology Collaboration

Paul Maharg: Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century , (Ashgate, 2007)

A book which provides the foundation for an interactive web-based community of practice.

Four sections:

Experience

Ethics

Technology

Collaboration

Conceptual approaches Good academic practice and ethics Live clinic Role-play and simulation Law and popular culture Law and literature Moral philosophy Values The legal system Why teach legal ethics? Pervasive or discrete? Curricular or extra-curricular? Vocational or liberal education? Where in the system? Discussion spaces Academics Practitioners Students As a learning tool? ?

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Add further ideas or resources to the wiki at http:// www.eu.socialtext.net/transforming/index.cgi?transforming

Help to develop an international community of practice

Participate in survey on:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KWO3Rf35UOmQWi92lsE8Tg_3d_3d

Contact me at [email_address]