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More on the Beyond Text conference at the University of Edinburgh

By NRapoport

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)

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).