The Future of Australian Legal Education Conference 2017

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Saturday 12 August

Keynote Address

• Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, Why Lawyers Need a Broad Social Education
  

Current status of legal education - where are we now and how we got here

• Emeritus Professor Dennis Pearce AO, The Past is a Different Country
• Emeritus Professor Sandford Clark AM, Regulating Admission – Are we there yet?
  
• Emeritus Professor David Barker AM, The Bowen Report – The Overlooked Influence on Legal Education
• The Hon Michael Black AC QC, The CALD Standards for Australian Law Schools: much more than course content

Pedagogy and outcomes

• Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, The Need For Lawyers
  
• Christina Do and Nicole Wilson-Rogers, ‘Business, Law and Regulation’: A model for developing 'critical thinking' skills in future law graduates
  
• Professor Alex Steel, Finding ways to quicken, not deaden, the spirit of legal education: reflections on approaches to drafting regulatory standards

Making connections

• The Hon Nicholas Hasluck AM QC, The Case for Change: Keeping One's Own Counsel
  
• Justin Gleeson SC, Can Australian lawyers of the future afford not to be internationalist?

The Good Lawyer

• Andrew Henderson, Identifying students’ drive as a compass to being a ‘good’ lawyer
• Dr Christian Duperouzel, Reaching Your Verdict: A vocational guide to discerning whether or not to study law and enter the legal field
• Susan Carter, Statutory Interpretation and Legal Ethics: once and done or taught throughout the curriculum?
• Alan Cameron AO, Good mental health as an essential component of the ‘Good Lawyer’

Technology and teaching

• Dr Philippa Ryan, Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to improve law students’ self-assessments
• Dr Sarah-Jane Hiller, Flipping the chalk and take with law students on and off line: the advantages of transformative pedagogy utilising technology
  

Purposes and goals of legal education

• Emeritus Professor John Farrar, The Future of Australian Legal Education – A Comparative View
• Professor Simon Rice OAM, A Place for Critical Perspectives in Legal Education
  

Sunday 13 August

• Associate Professor Michael Legg, New Skills for New Lawyers: Responding to Technology and Practice Developments
  
• The Hon Justice John Basten, Teaching Statutory Interpretation
• Kirsty McPhee, Preparing for the Business of Law, not the Practice of Law
• Professor David Rolph, The Role of Legal History in Australian Legal Education

Enhancing access to, and indigenous engagement in, legal education

• Associate Professor Alison Gerard, Annette Gainsford and Kim Bailey, Embedding Indigenous Cultural Competence in a Bachelors of Laws at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University: A Case Study
  
• Professor Jenny Buchan, Dr Leela Cejnar and Shaun Katz, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through online learning: using a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to facilitate acquisition of specialist legal knowledge
  

Experiential learning

• Associate Professor Cathy Sherry, Fertile Octogenarians in Cyberspace: Why and how to use technology to connect the law school classroom to legal practice
  
• Neville Carter, Australian Legal Education Sector: Key Metrics
• Svetlana German and Robert Pelletier, Clinical Legal Experience: The Benefits of Practical Training in Teaching - Student Perspectives
  

Preparing for the impact of technology on legal practice

• Associate Professor Penny Crofts, Teaching skills for future legal professionals
• Associate Professor Gabrielle Appleby, Associate Professor Sean Brennan and Professor Andrew Lynch, Keep Calm and Carry On: Why the Increasing Automation of Legal Services Should Deepen and Not Diminish Legal Education

Final Plenary: Looking to the future of legal education

• The Hon Justice Alan Robertson, Deputy President, Australian Academy of Law, Final Plenary Speech
  
• Fiona McLeod SC, President, Law Council of Australia, Final Plenary Speech
  
• Dan Trevanion, President, Australian Law Students Association, Final Plenary Speech