Teaching IP to mixed-education classes: is there any research?

The IPKat has received this query from his scholarly friend Thorsten Lauterbach (Lecturer in Law and Course Leader for Postgraduate International Law Programmes at the Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland). He writes:
"Dear IPKat

Are you aware of any research on the teaching of IP Law to a multicultural/ international postgraduate cohort of students? I am involved in the teaching IP in a module that is both taken by MSc International Trade and LLM International Commercial Law/IT Law students from China, Nigeria, India, UK/EU and many other places. In addition, the educational background of the cohort is varied, with many having an undergraduate law degree, but others (especially in the International Trade course) having business, economics and public policy degrees.
All of this makes pitching IP law content at the right level very tricky; I would be most grateful if there was a way to get in touch with others who have similar experiences.  And, indeed, if there was research available, I would be most interested in devouring it!".
The IPKat has had a good deal of practical experience teaching mixed groups of this nature, and knows how difficult it can be, but he has no knowledge of any research on it. Pitching the subject correctly is pretty tricky when the same class contains both those who have already studied IP and those who have not, and those who have a grounding in common law and those whose legal education is in the civil law tradition. Basing the teaching around specific problems rather than on legal principles is one way of tackling the difficulties, but there may be better ways.

If any reader has any comments or suggestions, can he or she please send them to Thorsten  here.

Teaching cats here and here
Cats and 'interspecies communication' here
Teaching IP to mixed-education classes: is there any research? Teaching IP to mixed-education classes: is there any research? Reviewed by Jeremy on Monday, May 25, 2009 Rating: 5

2 comments:

  1. best is let the class teach you with their questions and reflections. let it be a two way process- u teach they question, they question u reflect and then both debate!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I have attended a two year multidisciplinary international masters education called Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) at Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at Gothenburg university in Sweden.

    We were a class mixed of students from LLM, Engineering/Science and Business backgrounds taking much the same classes. The education was to great extent focused on cases where we could use our different backgrounds and contribute to the end result of the group.

    To find more information about the education please visit www.icm.cip.chalmers.se

    ReplyDelete

All comments must be moderated by a member of the IPKat team before they appear on the blog. Comments will not be allowed if the contravene the IPKat policy that readers' comments should not be obscene or defamatory; they should not consist of ad hominem attacks on members of the blog team or other comment-posters and they should make a constructive contribution to the discussion of the post on which they purport to comment.

It is also the IPKat policy that comments should not be made completely anonymously, and users should use a consistent name or pseudonym (which should not itself be defamatory or obscene, or that of another real person), either in the "identity" field, or at the beginning of the comment. Current practice is to, however, allow a limited number of comments that contravene this policy, provided that the comment has a high degree of relevance and the comment chain does not become too difficult to follow.

Learn more here: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/p/want-to-complain.html

Powered by Blogger.