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