Summer 2014 Workshop

July 8, 2014 - 1:00pm to July 10, 2014 - 11:30am

The Summer 2014 NIFTEP workshop took place from 1:00 pm, Tuesday, July 8 until 11:30 am Thursday, July 10, 2014 in London, England, immediately preceding the 6th International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC6).  The workshop was co-sponsored by Teaching Legal Ethics UK, part of City Law School’s Centre for the Study of Legal Professional Practice and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism

Location

The workshop venue was the Gray’s Inn Campus of the City Law School (formerly known as the Inns of Court School of Law):
4 Gray's Inn Square
London WC1R 5DX

Program

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Start

End

Speaker

Session

1:00

2:15

Clark Cunningham

Welcome Luncheon-Introduction of Participants

2:15

2:45

Graham Ferris

Three Children and a Flute: A Demonstration | Video

2:45 PM

3:30

Carol Needham

Ethics in Negotiation: Teaching Demonstration | Video

4:00 PM

4:45 PM

Maxim Tomoszek

Ethical Issues in Clinic: Teaching Demonstration | Materials | Video

4:45 PM

5:15 PM

Freda Grealy

Inculcating Professional Identity in Trainee Solicitors in Ireland | Materials | Video

5:15 PM

6:15 PM

Helena Whalen-Bridge

Teaching Process-- The Ethics Method Project: Teaching Demonstration | Materials | Video

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Start

End

Speaker

Session

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

Russ Pearce

Professional Role, Identity,  and the Rule of Law: Teaching Demonstration | Materials | Video

10:30 AM

11:15 AM

 

Small Group 1

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

Holdsworth/Kotzee

Virtues and Values in the Professions: Part 1 | Materials | Video

1:45 PM

2:45 PM

Holdsworth/Kotzee

Virtues and Values in the Professions: Part 2 

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Fiona Westwood

Development of Professional Judgment When Traditional Structures are Disintegrating | Video

3:15 PM

4:00 PM

Alvin Chen

Ethics in Practice Workshop for Practice Trainees: Teaching Demonstration | Video

4:00 PM

4:45 PM

 

Small Group 2

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

Melissa Swain/Jonel Newman

The Clinic Effect: Ethical Professional Identity Formation in Law Students | Materials | Video

5:30 PM

6:15 PM

Shamini Ragavan

Making Core Values Explicit | Materials | Video

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Start

End

Speaker

Session

9:15 AM

10:15 AM

John Berry

Evolving Inevitable Changes to Legal Education in the US | Video

    John Berry/Clark Cunningham/JoNel Newman Analyzing Discipline Patterns to Guide Educational Design | Video

10:30 AM

11:30 AM

Clark Cunningham

Participant Summaries of Workshop | Video

Workshop Participants

Participants in this highly interactive workshop were selected as NIFTEP Fellows through an online application process.  Total attendance at the London workshop, including Fellows and invited speakers, was 24. There was no charge for registration, rooms at International Hall, and meals during the workshop. Fellows were responsible for their own travel expenses. 

Speaker/Discussants

John Berry, Florida Bar (USA)

Clark D. Cunningham, National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism & Georgia State University College of Law (USA)

Nigel Duncan, City Law School (UK)

Adrian Evans, Monash Law School (Australia)

Michael Holdsworth, Jubilee Centre in the School of Education, University of Birmingham (UK)

Ben Kotzee,  Jubilee Centre in the School of Education, University of Birmingham (UK)

Russell Pearce, Fordham University School of Law (USA)

Fiona Westwood, University of Glasgow (Scotland) 

Fellows

Francesca Bartlett, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland (Australia)

Alvin Chen, Singapore Institute of Legal Education (Singapore)

David Fennelly, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

Graham Ferris, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University (UK)

Freda Grealy, Education Department, Law Society of Ireland (Ireland)

Gülriz Uygur, Law School, Ankara University (Turkey)

Justin Hansford, Saint Louis University (USA)

Carol A. Needham, Saint Louis University (USA)

JoNel Newman, University of Miami School of Law

Shamini K. Ragavan, School of Law, Newcastle University (UK)

Amy Salyzyn, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa (Canada)

Olga Shepeleva, Moscow Office, Global Network for Public Interest law (PILnet) (Russia)

Melissa Swain, University of Miami School of Law (USA)

Tuomas Tiittala, University of Helsinki Faculty of Law (Finland)

Maxim Tomoszek, Centre for Clinical Legal Education, Faculty of Law, Palacky University (Czech Republic)

Helena Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (Singapore)

Participant Biographical Information: PDF iconNIFTEP Summer 2014 Bios