Legal Education Group
Our aim is to facilitate a wider and deeper understanding of the evolving legal education and training needs of the professions (including legal executives and paralegals), and to offer researchers, scholars and trainers opportunities to share best practice in meeting those needs. This includes engagement with the discourse on how best to educate lawyers for entry to, and progression in, the professions.
Themes to be explored include:
- Effective learning strategies to achieve vocational and academic legal education that links critical thinking to practice-focussed learning and values
- How to develop competence in legal knowledge and skills and ethical standards for those entering the legal workplace
- How to embed best practice in workplace training and career development to maintain career-stage appropriate competence and outcomes
- How to create a more equal, diverse and inclusive legal workforce
- How to recognise, nurture, develop and retain talent within the legal workforce
- How legal scholarship, research and educational theory informs concepts of ‘graduateness’ and workplace learning and career development
- How best to enhance employability
- The role of Clinical Legal Education
Subject group leads:
Other staff:
Laura Blatchford
Emeritus Professor Nigel Duncan
Useful resources:
Clinical Legal Education Association
Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Law subject benchmark statement
The Law Society - Becoming a solicitor