LILI 2006: Using your imagination: illuminating legal education

8th Annual Conference of the Learning in Law Initiative
UK Centre for Legal Education
www.ukcle.ac.uk

5 January 2006, University of Warwick

LILI 2006, attended by over 130 delegates, explored the ways in which those engaged in legal education can meet the needs and expectations of an increasingly diverse student population. Our keynote speaker was David McQuoid-Mason, James Scott Wylie Professor of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. David spoke on the theme: 'Confucius said "I do and I understand": using your imagination to light up knowledge, skills and values for LLB students'.

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Biography of David McQuoid-Mason

David is James Scott Wylie Professor of Procedural and Clinical Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, founder of the South African Street Law programme, co-founder of the Democracy for All programme and President of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA).

David was Dean of the Law School at the University of Natal for 13 years. He has facilitated at numerous NGO training workshops on street law, human rights and democracy in a variety of countries around the world and advised on the setting up and improving of legal aid schemes in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Nigeria, as well as on the establishment of paralegal advice offices in Sierra Leone, Mongolia, Moldova and Cambodia.

David is widely published. He has delivered over 130 papers at national conferences and over 80 at international conferences. On 10 December 2004 he was awarded a Special Mention by UNESCO for his work in human rights education.


Using your imagination to light up knowledge, skills and values for LLB students: clinical legal education and effective lessons
David McQuoid-Mason, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Part I

Part II