Another podcast today, this time spotlighting the work and thoughts of Peter Ringrose. Peter has a long history with public legal education in Canada. Decades ago, he worked on early PLE efforts in New Brunswick, where he practiced and taught law. In 1984, he became the first executive director of the brand new Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland (PLIAN), which he led for ten years. Peter is now the executive director of the Law Society of NL.
In my half-hour chat with Peter, we talked a lot about some of his most experimental PLE projects—including the PLE novel, Ask Me No Questions—and tackled some controversial areas, like:
- whether pamphlets are worth it,
- whether it’s possible to reach communities in the North,
- and whether, as one Canadian MP once said, PLE today is out of big ideas and “just running printing presses” anymore.
The podcast is available as an mp3, which you can download by clicking here [38 MB MP3]. As always, I welcome all of your comments.
January 27, 2009 at 11:03 am
ben kimim