About the author

Paul Maharg (MA (Hons) Class 1, PhD, PGCE, Dip Ed, LLB) is Professor of Legal Education in the School of Law, University of Northumbria and is currently setting up a legal education centre in the School.  Prior to this he was a Professor of Law in the Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde where he was Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit at the GGSL, as well as Director of the two-year, JISC/UKCLE-funded project, SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment – http://simplecommunity.org).  He is the author of Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century (2007, Ashgate Publishing, 354pp, www.transforming.org.uk), editor and contributor to Digital Games and Learning (2010, forthcoming, Continuum Publishers), and has published widely in the fields of legal education and professional learning design (http://ssrn.com/author=272987).  His specialisms include interdisciplinary educational design, and the use of ICT at all levels of legal education.  He was recently appointed a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the RSA (www.thersa.org).  He blogs at http://zeugma.typepad.com.