Professor Paul Maharg
Areas of expertise
- Curriculum And Pedagogy 1302
- Other Law And Legal Studies 1899
Biography
My first employment was as an adult education outreach worker in Glasgow, and part-time academic literacies tutor at Glasgow University. After a law degree I worked for seven years as lecturer then senior lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University Law Dept, focusing on curriculum development and use of IT in legal learning. In 1999 I was appointed to the newly-formed Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde, first as senior lecturer then professor. There, I was Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit, as well as Director of the two-year, JISC/UKCLE-funded project, SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment). In 2010 I was invited to join Northumbria Law School as Professor of Legal Education, and in 2013 appointed to a professorial post at the Australian National University. Currently I spend five months on campus at ANU, seven months in the UK (Glasgow and Orkney), where I live with my wife Nicola.
Publications
- Maharg, P 2016, 'Editorial: Learning/Technology', The Law Teacher: Journal of the Association of Law Teachers, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 15-23.
- Maharg, P 2016, 'Disintermediation', The Law Teacher: Journal of the Association of Law Teachers, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 114-131.
- Maharg, P, ed., 2015, European Journal of Law and Technology.
- Maharg, P 2015, 'Res Publica: The early days of a better world', Demos, vol. Online, no. 03/09/2015, pp. 5pp.
- Maharg, P 2015, 'Editorial', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 2pp.
- Maharg, P 2015, ''Democracy begins in conversation': The phenomenology of problem-based learning and legal education', Nottingham Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 94-111.
- Maharg, P 2015, 'Shared space: regulation, technology and legal education in a global context', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-31.
- Ching, J, Maharg, P, Sherr, A et al 2015, 'An overture for well-tempered regulators: four variations on a LETR theme', The Law Teacher: Journal of the Association of Law Teachers, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 143-164.
- Maharg, P 2014, 'Death masks and professional masks: community, values and ethics in legal education', REDU Revista de docencia Universitaria, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 127-151.
- Maharg, P 2014, 'Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-23.
- Maharg, P & Nicol, E 2014, 'Simulation and Technology in Legal Education: a Systematic Review', in C Strevens, R Grimes, E Phillips (ed.), Legal Education: Simulation in Theory and Practice, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Surrey, England, pp. 17-42.
- de Freitas, S & Maharg, P, eds, 2014, Digital Games and Learning, Routledge, USA.
- Maharg, P 2013, ''Associated life': democratic professionalism and the moral imagination', in Bankowski, Zenon & Del Mar, Maksymilian (ed.), The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life: Beyond Text in legal Education, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England, pp. 111-143.
- Maharg, P & Bloxham, S 2013, ''Too many laws, too few examples': Regulation, technology, law & legal education (Editorial: BILETA2012 Conference journal special issue)', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1.
- Bainbridge, J, Counsell, K, Grealy, F et al 2013, 'iPads in Legal Learning (iLEGALL): mobile devices in professional legal learning', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 27.
- Webb, J, Ching, J, Maharg, P et al 2013, Setting Standards. The Future of Legal Services Education and Training Regulation in England and Wales.
- Bloxham, S & Maharg, P 2013, ''Too many laws, too few examples.' Regulation, technology, law & legal education', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1.
- Maharg, P 2013, 'Prefessor Abdul Paliwala - an appreciation', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1.
- Maharg, P 2013, 'BILETA2012 Conference 'Too many laws, too few examples.' Regulation, technology, law & legal education', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 9pp.
- Maharg, P, 2013, 'Professor Abdul Paliwala - An Appreciation', European Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 4, no. 1.
- Bankowski, Z, del Mar, M & Maharg, P, eds, 2012, The Arts and the Legal Academy: Beyond Text in Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, USA.
- Maharg, P 2012, 'Simulation: A Pedagogy Emerging from the Shadows', in O Goodenough, M Lauritsen (ed.), Educating the Digital Lawyer, LexisNexis, New Providence and San Francisco, pp. 1-23.
- Barton, K, Garvey, J & Maharg, P 2012, ''You Are Here': Learning Law, Practice and Professionalism in the Academy', in Z Bankowski, M Del Mar, P Maharg (ed.), The Arts and the Legal Academy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, USA, pp. 189-212.
- Maharg, P 2012, 'Assessing legal professionalism in simulations: The case of SIMPLE'.
- Bankowski, Z, del Mar, M & Maharg, P 2012, 'Introduction: the Arts and the Legal Academy', in Z Bankowski, M Del Mar, P Maharg (ed.), The Arts and the Legal Academy, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, USA, pp. 1-13.
- Maharg, P 2012, 'The Identity of Scots Law: Redeeming the Past', in M A Mulhern (ed.), Scottish Life and Society: The Law, Birlinn, Edinburgh.
- Maharg, P 2011, 'Space, absence, silence: the intimate dimensions of legal learning', in Maharg, P; Maughan,C (ed.), Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, pp. 283-305.
- Maharg, P & Maughan, C, eds, 2011, Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot.
- Maharg, P 2011, 'Sea-change', International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 139-164.
- Maharg, P & Maughan, C 2011, 'Introduction', in Maharg, P; Maughan,C (ed.), Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot.
- de Freitas, S & Maharg, P 2011, 'Digital games and learning: modelling learning experiences in the digital age', in Sara de Freitas and Paul Maharg (ed.), Digital Games and Learning, Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, USA, pp. 17-41PP.
- Agapiou, A, Maharg, P & Nicol, E 2010, 'Construction and constructivism: learning contract management and administration via simulated transactions', Centre for Education in the Built Environment Transactions Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 37-54.
- Maharg, P 2009, 'Simulation, technology and professionalism', in (ed.), New Currents in Law School Education: The Use of Simulation and Web-Based Approaches, Kwansei Gakuin University Press, Japan, pp. 15-42.
- Maharg, P 2009, 'Cyberdam and SIMPLE: a study in divergent developments and convergent aims', in Warmelink, H; Mayer, I (ed.), Learning in a virtual world, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen.
- Gould, H, Hughes, M, Maharg, P et al 2009, 'The narrative event diagram: a tool for designing professional simulations', in David Gibson and Young Kyun Baek (ed.), Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, IGI Global Books, Hershey, PA, pp. 101-118.
- Hughes, M, Gould, H, Mckellar, P et al 2008, SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMPLE): Programme Final Report.
- Maharg, P 2007, 'Authentic fictions: simulation, professionalism and legal learning', Clinical Law Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 143-193.
- Maharg, P 2007, 'Black box, Pandora's box or virtual toolbox? An experiment in a journal's transparent peer review on the web', International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 109-128.
- Maharg, P 2007, 'SIMPLE: simulation learning and professional practice', in Igor Mayer and Hanneke Mastik (ed.), Organizing and Learning through Gaming and Simulation. Proceedings of Isaga 2007, Eburon, Delft, pp. 211-220.
- Maharg, P 2007, Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot and Burlington.
- Maharg, P 2007, 'Authenticity and professionalism: transactional learning in virtual communities', Innovating e-Learning 2006, ed. Sara de Freitas and Ros Smith, JISC, Bristol.
- Maharg, P & Barton, K 2007, 'E-simulations in the wild: interdisciplinary research, design and implementation', in David Gibson, Clark Aldrich, Marc Prensky (ed.), Games and Simulations in Online Learning, IGI Global, USA, pp. 115-149.
- Maharg, P 2007, 'Epilogue: Future directions for gaming and simulation', in Igor Mayer, Geertje Bekebrede, Karen Jager (ed.), Spelend Leren in Virtuele Werelden: Bouwstenen voor Online Gaming in het Hoger Onderwijs, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, Netherlands, pp. 235-237.
- Maharg, P 2005, Portrait of the online tutor as Thelonius Monk. Directions, 11, Autumn. Warwick, UK Centre for Legal Education
- Maharg, P 2004, 'Virtual firms: transactional learning on the web', The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, vol. November 2004.
- Maharg, P 2004, 'Virtual communities on the web: transactional learning and teaching', in Anton Vedder (ed.), Aan het werk met ICT in het academisch onderwijs, Wolf Legal Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 75-90.
- Maharg, P & Paliwala, A 2002, 'Negotiating the Learning Process with Electronic Resources', in Roger Burridge, Karen Hinett, Abdul Paliwala, Tracey Varnava (ed.), Effective Learning and Teaching in Law, Kogan Page, London, pp. 81-104.
- Maharg, P 2002, Test of Professional Competence First Pilot Examination: Report on First Pilot Feedback.
- Maharg, P 2001, 'Imagined communities, imaginary conversations: failure and the construction of legal identities', in Lindsay Farmer, Rob Dunbar (ed.), The State of Scots Law: law and government after the Devolution Settlement, LexisNexis, London, UK, pp. 135-150.
- Maharg, P 2001, 'Plans for action, time for reflection: an experiment with time, action and personal development', in Charlews Juwah, Lorraine Stefani, Jenny Westwood, Craig Gray, Jan Drysdale (ed.), Personal Development Planning in Practice: A Series of Case Studies, Personal Development Planning in Higher Education (Scotland) Group, Scotland, pp. 1-5.
- Maharg, P 2000, '"Context, cues, cognition": writing, rhetoric and legal argumentation', in Sally Mitchell, Richard Andrews (ed.), Learning to Argue in Higher Education, Heinemann, USA.