Julian Webb

Centre Director

Julian’s contact details

UK Centre for Legal Education
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Telephone: 024 7615 0231
Mobile: 0782 4541158
E-mail: julian.webb@warwick.ac.uk
Blog: hEaDspace

About Julian

Julian took over as Director of UKCLE from Roger Burridge in May 2006. As Director he carries overall responsibility for policy and the strategic management of the Centre. Within the Centre he works closely with the Associate Director, Tracey Varnava, in maintaining the Centre’s research strategy, and has particular interests in the political economy of legal education, widening participation and diversity, legal ethics education, and clinical and work-based learning.

Julian is also Professor of Legal Education in Warwick Law School, where he teaches on the LLM in Socio-Legal Studies, as well as on the undergraduate law programme. Before joining Warwick he held chairs at the University of Westminster, where he was Director of Research Development for the law school, and the University of the West of England.

In addition to his interests in legal education, Julian’s research and teaching interests have encompassed the legal profession and ethics, legal theory, and civil justice. From 1998-2008 he was a founding editor of the journal Legal Ethics; he remains on the journal’s Advisory Board, and on the boards of the International Journal of the Legal Profession and the Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education. Julian has undertaken educational consultancy for a number of bodies, including the Law Society of England and Wales, the New Zealand Council of Legal Education and the University of London’s External Law Programme. In 2008 he was awarded a higher doctorate by Warwick in recognition of his contribution to the scholarship of legal education.

Julian blogs at hEaDspace.

Julian’s recent publications

• Boon A & Webb J (2008) ‘Legal education and training in England: back to the future?’ Journal of Legal Education 58(1):79-121
• Burridge R & Webb J (2007) ‘The values of common law legal education: rethinking rules, responsibilities, relationships and roles in the law school’ Legal Ethics 10(1):72-97
• Webb J (2006) ‘The “ambitious modesty” of Harry Arthurs’ humane professionalism’ Osgoode Hall Law Journal 44(1):119-155
• Webb J (2006) ‘When “law and sociology” is not enough: transdisciplinarity and the problem of complexity’ in M Freeman (ed) Law and sociology Oxford: University Press (pp90-106)
• Boon A, Flood J & Webb J (2005) ‘Postmodern professions? The fragmentation of legal education and the legal profession’ Journal of Law & Society 32(3):473-492
• Varnava T & Webb J (2008) ‘Key aspects of teaching and learning: enhancing learning in legal education’ in H Fry, S Ketteridge & S Marshall (eds) A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education: enhancing academic practice Abingdon: Routledge Education
• Webb J & Fancourt A (2004) ‘The Law Society’s Training Framework Review: on the straight and narrow or long and winding road?’ The Law Teacher 38(3):293-325
• Webb J & Maughan M with Purcell W (2004) Review of the training contract and work-based learning (report to the Law Society)

Last Modified: 4 June 2010