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Legal experts discuss future of the profession
Experts gathered from across the country to discuss the future of legal education, including Professors Jane Ching, Paul Maharg, Avrom Sherr and Julian Webb, who conducted the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), published in 2013.
Supported by the Association of Law Teachers and Routledge, the event reflected on developments in legal education and training over the last five years.
Deveral Capps, Dean of Leeds Law School, said: “The conference was a great success and having the original research team physically in the room - the only time since 2013 - was an added bonus. We look forward to holding a ten-year event in 2023.”
During the conference, 14 papers were presented including three by Leeds Law School staff: Dr Doug Morrison reflected on changes to assessment in Medical Law and how we can foster creativity by using innovative assessment methods to encourage deeper and more critical learning; Dr Jessica Guth considered the social mobility and diversity in the context of changes to legal education and training for solicitors; Deveral Capps delivered a presentation about his work for the Bar Standards Board on the development of a new training regime for barristers.
Representatives from the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Cilex Regulation and the Bar Standards Board offered some thoughts on the impact of the LETR team, how entry to the professions is regulated, and how education and training for lawyers has changed or will change in the future.
The day finished with a keynote by Professor Tony Bradney of Keele University entitled The Rise of University Law Schools: Or Not.