Back to the (academic) future

UKCLE: celebrating ten years

Part of UKCLE’s Visions of legal education, Back to the (academic) future is a short film commissioned to coincide with UKCLE’s 10th anniversary and premièred at the Learning in Law annual conference. In the film Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Fiona Cownie (Keele University), Richard de Friend (College of Law), Paul Maharg (now University of Northumbria), Valerie Shrimplin (Bar Standards Board) and Julian Webb (UKCLE) give their views on the future of legal education.

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The film captures the opinions of leading legal education scholars and practitioners about the past, present and future of legal education in the UK. The overriding message is that we must all seize our chance to be positive actors in shaping the future of legal education.

Those interviewed include:

• Professor Fiona Cownie, Keele University
• Professor Richard de Friend, College of Law
• Sandra Garlick, Partner, De Marco Hunter Solicitors
• Professor Paul Maharg, Northumbria University
• Professor Avrom Sherr, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Dr Valerie Shrimplin, Bar Standards Board
• Professor Julian Webb, UKCLE

Also interviewed were Katie Shih-Ying Lee, Amanda Shi Mei Neo and Min Lim, all second year law students from the University of Warwick.

You are encouraged to share the film with colleagues and students and to employ it to stimulate debate; perhaps during staff meetings, at away days, and as part of teaching and learning events. We welcome your feedback and examples of how the film has been used. Please get in touch if UKCLE can assist you in preparing to meet the challenges identified in the film.

Last Modified: 4 June 2010