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Category Archives: Academia

Here we go again…

December 7, 2008 – 9:02 pm

Once again, the endlessly tedious arguments about academic bias in humanities departments at universities are to the fore, with a Senate Report on same just released. Mark over at Larvatus Prodeo has an interesting discussion going, which I recommend. Some of the lefties (but not any of the LP posters) are doing themselves no favours [...]

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Student evaluations again

September 17, 2008 – 12:29 pm

I’ve written before on student evaluations, with a bit of a giggle about some of the answers I get.
As I have said, my worry has always been that the kinds of questions asked are too vague, and the responses don’t really reflect, well…anything:
There is also a “multiple choice” part of the questionnaire that students must [...]

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“Why did I get this mark?”

September 2, 2008 – 1:14 pm

One of the problems I found with my law degree is that I was never quite sure why I received the marks I did. So I am very sympathetic to students when they consult me for exam feedback. I go through the exam with the student and point out where they lost marks, and what could [...]

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Restitution Blog Posts

August 25, 2008 – 4:35 pm

Anyone who loves restitution law will have been aware for some time of the Restitution Legal Resource page, maintained by Steve Hedley. It’s a fantastic resource for restitution scholars.
Now Steve has added a page of restitution-related blog posts. How awesome is that? I’m proud to say that a few of them have been penned by [...]

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Exercising the brain

August 18, 2008 – 6:10 pm

Given that a recent comment thread on Germaine Greer turned into a discussion of dyslexia and learning difficulties, I thought I might start off a direct discussion of learning difficulties in a post. I just read a book called The Brain that Changes Itself, which discusses neuroplasticity and the capacity of the brain to change. It had [...]

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Private law oils the wheels of society

August 4, 2008 – 6:02 pm

Since I’ve become an academic, I’ve become aware of an insidious belief. It is this: study of private law is just not sexy. I’m thinking here of contract, tort, restitution, property law and trusts. Such subjects are compulsory in undergraduate years, which never makes them look appealing. Equitable doctrines are probably the closest private law gets [...]

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The Goals of Private Law

July 28, 2008 – 5:59 pm

Well, I’m back from my conference, and all went better than I could have hoped with my talk. Lots of questions afterwards, but that’s pleasing in itself (it means that there’s something there which makes people think).
It was interesting that my own talk fitted in with the general tenor of the conference. In essence, there is a [...]

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“We sail tonight for Singapore…”

July 18, 2008 – 7:14 pm

Well, that’s not quite true. The family and I will be flying to Singapore tomorrow for a Conference on the Law of Obligations. I will be taking the laptop, but not sure whether there will be much opportunity for wireless access – if you don’t hear from me for a week, you’ll know why. Wish me [...]

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Student, grade thyself…

July 18, 2008 – 4:18 pm

Dave sent me this interesting post from Prawfsblog about law students grading their own answers. The author of the post was speaking to another law lecturer, who proposed the following idea for an exam:
…[H]e might give three questions on an exam and ask students to answer all of them. But he also asks them to choose [...]

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Imposter Syndrome

July 12, 2008 – 11:47 am

When I was an undergraduate student, I did very well in a particular subject, and the coordinator asked me to tutor in the subject the next year.
“Um, I feel like a bit of a fraud,” I said. “Maybe my marks were just luck, or something like that.”
“I feel like that all the time,” confessed the [...]

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