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About this Event
Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Seminar 2024
Queen’s University Belfast
26th and 27th June 2024
Moot Court Room, Main Site Tower
Wednesday 26th June
12:00 Welcome
Joan Loughrey (Queen’s University Belfast)
12:10 Opening remarks
Alice Diver (Queen’s University Belfast)
12:15 Keynote I: Roundtable discussion on leadership in teaching and learning
Chair: Norah Burns (Queen’s University Belfast)
Sarah Hamill (Trinity College Dublin)
Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning
Ronan Condon (Dublin City University)
Teaching and Learning Convenor
Martin Regan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Director of Education
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel I: Redesigning the law school
Chair: Liam Sunner (Queen’s University Belfast)
Anthony O’Dwyer (Technological University Dublin)
Locked into technology and out of society: 20 years of social media in the class room
Alice Harrison (University of Portsmouth)
From induction to graduation (and beyond): a law programme inclusive and accessible by design
Emma Roberts (Salford University)
Leading a university law school in times of change: Are we nearly there yet?
15:30 Coffee
15:45 Panel II: Teaching internationally
Chair: John Taggart (Queen’s University Belfast)
Philip Bajon (Aston University)
Beyond Brexit: Teaching European Union law in the United Kingdom
Victoria Barnes (Queen’s University Belfast) and Patrizia Hobbs (Brunel University London)
International PhD recruitment and employability
Liam Sunner (Queen’s University Belfast)
Risk, rewards, and (E)U
17:15 Keynote II
Chair: Martin Regan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Meryl Dickinson (Brunel University London)
A joined up and holistic approach to community and wellbeing in Higher Education
18:00 Closing remarks
Norah Burns (Queen’s University Belfast)
18:10 Drinks reception
19:00 Dinner for presenters
Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Seminar 2024
COMMUNITY AND PURPOSE IN THE LAW SCHOOL
Queen’s University Belfast
26th and 27th June 2024
Moot Court Room, Main Site Tower
Thursday 27th June
9.15 Keynote III
Eimear Brown (King’s Inn)
Community and Purpose in the Law School: Student Engagement in a Post-Pandemic Environment
Verona Ni Drisceoil (University of Sussex)
Who does the labour? Critiquing commitments to community, belonging and inclusion in today’s law school
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Panel IV: Instilling professional identities, bonds and ties
Chair: Norah Burns (Queen’s University Belfast)
Susan Breau (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
Creating a learning community amongst PhD students at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Deborah Chay and Bridget Lavin (Brunel University London)
Embedding professional skills in the curriculum
John Taggart (Queen’s University Belfast) and Jason Elliott (Ulster University)
Invoking the vocation: Examining the purpose of undergraduate legal study
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel V: Ameliorating the modern law school
Chair: Alice Diver (Queen’s University Belfast)
Tony Bradney (Keele University)
Reasons to be cheerful: The future of university legal education
Zi Yang (Aston University)
‘It’s not you. Commercial law is just not fun’: Teaching law to non-law students
Maebh Harding (University College Dublin) & Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Doing Feminist Legal Work’: Feminist pedagogies in Ireland and Northern Ireland
14:45 Closing Remarks
Victoria Barnes (Queen’s University Belfast)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Queen's University Belfast - School of Law, Moot Court, Belfast, United Kingdom
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