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What is the Crisis in Indian Legal Education?

March 18, 2020 By Saksham Gahoi Leave a Comment

Each year thousands of Indian students pursue law as a career option in different universities across the country but inexperienced faculty and outdated curricula mean that these aspiring graduates and legal professionals are ill prepared for the evolving demands of a new legal profession. Legal education is the problem and the solution.

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How To Design Great Educational Video for Higher Education

February 19, 2020 By Sabine Walsh Leave a Comment

Filming educational video

Designing engaging educational video takes a little bit of science and a little bit of Hollywood.

Video is king. 80% of all 18-49 year olds watch YouTube, with more than 1 billion hours of video watched on the platform every single day. Notably, over half of users say they use the site to “figure out how to do things they haven’t done before” arguably making it one of the world’s largest online education platforms.(1)

What this also means is that the current generation of students no longer have the patience and motivation to sit through hour-long recordings of traditional lectures.

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How to Teach Legal Skills at Scale

January 9, 2020 By Sabine Walsh Leave a Comment

The lawyers of the future don’t just need legal knowledge, they need skills. In law and many related disciplines such as dispute resolution, teaching skills in a face-to-face classroom setting is not only the norm, but often a requirement. In this article, we are going to show that there is another, more efficient and, if done right, more effective way of teaching skills, even to large numbers of students.

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Why Mediation Competitions Are On The Rise

December 19, 2019 By Sabine Walsh

For law students who want to boost their employability and fill a gap in their curriculum, and for professionals and academics who want to share their knowledge and do some serious networking, mediation competitions are the place to be. Not only do they provide valuable professional opportunities for those involved, but they also signal a change in certain legal defaults that have existed for centuries.

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Online Dispute Resolution in Practical Terms

December 6, 2019 By Aled Davies Leave a Comment

The technology is widely available to transform the world of dispute resolution but what does this look like and how could this change justice systems around the globe? Listen to Colin Rule, co-founder of Modria – the world’s first big ODR platform. 

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