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September 23, 2010

Earlier this week, Kevin Ramakrishna at the Best Practices for Legal Education Blog reviewed a new suite of classroom tools that the Berkman Center and Harvard Law School Library have developed: “The casebook began with Langdell at Harvard Law School,

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Funding Legal Education in a Post Recession Britain

By Michael Bromby

September 10, 2010

‘Funding Legal Education in a Post Recession Britain’, held at Glasgow University, began today with an Introduction from Head of the Law School, Rosa Greaves and the new College Head/DRM. The first session, ‘A View from the Regulators and Professional

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Hype Cycle for Education 2010

By Michael Bromby

September 1, 2010

Last year, I reported on the ‘Hype Cycle for Education 2009‘ from Gartner IT, which has been the most viewed page from this blog! This year, the Hype Cycle for Education, 26 July 2010 states: “The priority

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UKCLE Daily News

By Michael Bromby

August 27, 2010

Read all about it! Twitter is great for short messages (140 characters or less), sharing urls, interesting links, images, etc, etc, but sometimes it would be nice to see more than a very short exerpt or have to follow the

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Re-Blogging & Re-Tweeting: Copyright Issues?

By Michael Bromby

August 23, 2010

A few blogs that I read have recently made mention of copyright issues, including myself in a recent re-blog experience earlier this month in my ‘New Realities of the Legal Academy‘ post. I was singularly un-impressed with TypePad’s

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Mapping Online Legal Education Communities

By Michael Bromby

August 13, 2010

As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, Flowtown decided to re-create their own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as

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#FollowFriday – USA Theme

By Michael Bromby

August 6, 2010

This week, #FollowFriday features some US law schools as they prepare for their new intake for the 2010/11 academic session. Several law schools that our twitter account @HEA_UKCLE follow are currently gearing up for students starting mid-August – see the

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“The New Realities of the Legal Academy”

By Michael Bromby

August 3, 2010

The title of this post is the title of this intriguing new paper by Larry Solum available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: This short paper is the Foreword to Brannon P. Denning, Marcia L. McCormick, and Jeffrey M. Lipshaw,

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Annual review 2010 – who’s been reading this blog!?

By Michael Bromby

August 2, 2010

Last year’s Annual Review of the Digital Directions blog looked at the statistics available through Google Analytics and the Feedburner RSS feed for this blog. As usual, the full Analytics Report is available here, but I’ll make some comments in

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Field Trips for Law Students?!

By Michael Bromby

July 27, 2010

Last month, Matt Lister at The Faculty Lounge wrote about Field Trips for Law School Classes and this was followed up by the Law School Innovation blog. From the replies and comments so far, it looks like the following issues

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