Here's the conference schedule from last weekend:
Saturday 20 June – Theoretical Perspectives
Opening Panel
• Zenon Bankowski, The Space to See
• Maksymilian Del Mar, Breaking the Spell: The Education of Attention and Encounter in Law Schools and Law Firms
• Commentators: Tony Bradney and Julian Webb
1st Paper Presentation
• Randy Gordon, Truth in Context: Sketching a (New) Historicist Legal Pedagogy
2nd Paper Presentation
• Alan Lerner, When Parallel Lines Meet: Emotion and Cognition in Law and Legal Education
3rd Paper Presentation
• Paul Maharg, The Permeable Web: Community, Value and Ethics in Legal Education
4th Paper Presentation
• Nancy Rapoport, Changing the Modal Law School: Rethinking U.S. Legal Education in (Most) Schools
5th Paper Presentation and Performance
• Jim Moser, Tor Clark and Anthony Psaila (both from STEPS), Beyond the Text - Exploring Conflict Through Interactive Drama
Sunday 21 June – Policy Directions
Opening Panel
• Panellists: Zoë Fothergill, Alicja Rogalska, Keren Ben-Dor
6th Paper Presentation
• Gillian Calder, Embodied Law: Theatre of the Oppressed in the Law School Classroom
7th Paper Presentation
• Tom Mayo, Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: Incorporating Dance (and Painting and Sculpture) in a Course on Professionalism
8th Paper Presentation
• Elaine Webster, Threshold Concepts in Legal Education: Moving Beyond Text to Perceive Law as Narrative?
9th Paper Presentation
• Valerie Fitch, Is 'Beyond Text' Simply Beyond Them? Making the Case for Infusing the Arts into Law Firm Professional Development
10th Paper Presentation
• Anne Pirrie, And Finally, Beyond Text...
Each of these presentations moved me in some way, and I left the conference feeling enthused about ways that we could reconnect law students with other ways of thinking and learning about the law. More soon.
(Posted by Nancy Rapoport)
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