Quality Assurance, Accreditation and European Legal Education

Quality assurance and accreditation are key concepts in the Bologna process and in the ongoing redefinition of the roles to be played by universities, public authorities, and society in the future shaping of European higher education. It is closely linked to the change from ex ante state regulation of higher education to ex post control via quality monitoring and outcome-based funding, and perhaps the key to a European educational area dominated by autonomous institutions of research and higher education enjoying the general trust of society.

It is the aim of this conference to analyse «quality assurance» as a means of institutional self-improvement and a prerequisite for external acceptance and international accreditation.

Programme

Friday, November 19

8.30 – 9.30              Registration

9.30 – 9.45     Opening by prof. Adriaan Dorresteijn, Dean of the Law Faculty of Utrecht University

Session 1 /                              Chair  Julian Lonbay, Birmingham

9.45 – 10.30 
Quality – What are We Measuring? – A Definition * Prof. Jim Murdoch, Universityof Glasgow

10.30 – 11.00
The Methodology of Accreditation and Quality Assurance; the example from The Netherlands *Mr. Olchert Brouwer, Vice-president of the NVAO, Netherlands-Flemish Accreditation Organisation, member of the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA)

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee

Session 2 /                              Chair Anne Pelissier, Strasbourg

11.30 – 12.10 
Quality Assurance and Accreditation; Lessons from Serbia and Bosnia * Willibald Posch, President of ELFA

A Qualifications Framework for the legal education * Henrik Stevnsborg, Head of Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Comments by:
* Michael Hartmeier, Vice-president of the University of Strasbourg
* Jacek Petzel, Warsaw:  Quality Assurance in Poland

12:10 – 12.45                          Discussion

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

Session 3 /                              Chair Jacek Petzel, Warsaw

14.00 – 15.00  
Tuning an education * Prof. Julia Gonzalez, Vice-rector Universidad de Deusto Bilbao and Joint Coordinator of the Tuning Project

15.00 – 17.30 Workshops, two parallel tracks:

 Quality Assurance: Chair Tom Latrup Pedersen

 Qualifications Frameworks: Chair Julian Lonbay

17.30                                       End of first day               

Saturday November 20

Session 4 /                              Chair Anthony Bradney

9.30 – 09.50   
Redefining higher education -  a state monopoly under liberalisation? * Tom Latrup-Pedersen, dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Arhus

09.50 – 10.50  
Educating Lawyers - The legal profession as stakeholder * Dr. Julian Lonbay, University of Birmingham, chairman of the Training Committee of the CCBE

Education lawyers – The view of the profession * Chris Maguire, Bar Council, London

Comments:

* Johannes Reidel, Präsident des Landesjustizprüfungsamtes

                                                Discussion

10.50 – 11.15   Coffee

Session 5 /                              Chair Willibald Posch, Graz.

11.15 – 12.00   Alignment – how to create the bridge between qualifications and the learning process * Torben K. Jensen, associate professor, Centre of Leaning and Teaching, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aarhus

Comments 
* Representative of European Law Students Association
* Anne Pelissier, University of Strasbourg 

Session 6 Chair Michiel van de Kasteelen, Utrecht

12.00 – 12.45  
* Sanne Hirs, International Office Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, University of Utrecht, Presentation of a plan for future activities in this field

* Discussion

13:00 – 14.15      Lunch

Conference Committee         

* Julian Lonbay, professor, Birmingham, chair of the Training Committee of the CCBE, chairperson.

*  Tom Latrup-Pedersen, dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aarhus

* Anne Pélissier-Klébèes, professor, Strasbourg

* Michiel van de Kasteelen, Head of the international office, Utrecht

* Jacek Petzel, Vice-dean , Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw

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