Abstract:
When a highly dangerous virus forced more than half of the world population to cut social interactions and stay indoors, universities put into action the emergency drill and switched to fully-online teaching and assessments.
Because going entirely online was an emergency response to social distancing, it was not optional, and it was not purposeful. Like the economy, or the office space, online legal education was merely “Pandemic”: an emergency arrangement dictated by the ongoing crisis, and perceived as a mere surrogate of the “real-world”.
But in education and elsewhere, humankind is coming to understand that we can make the best out of this emergency drill that was “going online”. Entire sectors of the legal world have gone online during the pandemic and are now discovering the advantages of it. The objective of this paper is to flag out the lessons that we – as law education professionals – can learn in this pandemic.
Speaker:
Dr. Sara Migliorini (Ph.D., LLM, Paris Bar Admission), Researcher, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
Dr. Sara Migliorini is the Researcher in Private International Law of BIICL (the British Institute of International and Comparative Law).
She has extensive teaching experience in civil law and common law jurisdictions in Europe and Africa, at graduate and undergraduate level. Namely, she held teaching positions in the University of London International Programs and at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She has published several articles in the areas of private international law and comparative law, and a book on the European Account Preservation Regulation (Cambridge University Press).
Sara also practiced in international litigation and arbitration in Paris and is currently advising an Hong-Kong-based law firm on aspects of arbitration and IP.
Sara is admitted to practice law in France, holds a Ph.D from the European University Institute (EUI) and an LLM and a double-degree in French and Italian Law from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saramigliorini/