CLEA INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE, 2019
Legal education throughout the Commonwealth (and beyond) is facing a wide range of challenges and opportunities. Law schools must evolve and adapt to new generations of law students and Globalisation profoundly affects our life experience, competition is much greater than ever before and technology has opened our minds in a way not previously imagined. Tomorrows’ lawyers need to be more capable of responding to change. They need to be capable of functioning in that new world and legal education needs to be able to adapt to prepare them. Commonwealth countries share certain common legal traditions but how far do the similarities extend to cross border education and professional mobility? How will law schools in the Commonwealth deal with change to provide law students with the tools they need? How are Commonwealth law schools becoming involved in the global movement in clinical legal education? How are the law schools responding to calls by educational experts for less lecturing and more experiential learning for law students?
The CLEA biennial conference was hosted on Thursday, 4th and Friday, 5th April 2019 at the Zambian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Lusaka, Zambia.
The dates were designed to allow delegates to travel on to the Commonwealth Law Conference in Livingstone, Zambia as both Associations jointly run the Commonwealth Moot competition.
The conference included the Commonwealth Lecture which is part of an international lecture series. Previous lectures have been delivered in South Africa, Ghana and the UK
Theme: Challenges and Opportunities for Commonwealth Legal Education
Areas for discussion were:
Modernising the curriculum
Governance and combatting corruption
The use of technology in legal education
Intellectual property
Human rights
Clinical legal education
Lusaka, Zambia
The CLEA Conference took place prior to the Commonwealth Lawyers Conference in Zambia on 4th and 5th April 2019, and was co-hosted by the Zambian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Law teachers and practitioners from around the Commonwealth and other Common law delivered papers at the conference.
INTERACTIVE TEACHING WORKSHOP
A half-day Interactive Teaching Workshop was held on Friday 5 April 2018, and co-hosted by CLEA and the Zambian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and sponsored by the publishers Juta & Co. Ltd.
The Workshop covered an introduction to interactive teaching techniques; demonstrations of interactive lessons; the elements of a good interactive lesson; how to draft an interactive lesson plan; and practice in preparing an interactive lesson.
The Workshop was free, but limited to only 30 participants in order to ensure full participation by all participants.
COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS CONFERENCE AND VISITING VICTORIA FALLS
The Conference and Workshop concluded in time for delegates to attend the Commonwealth Lawyers Conference from 8-12 April 2018 in Livingstone, situated near the awe- inspiring Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
