The futures of legal education and the legal profession
By: edited by Hilary Sommerlad, Sonia Harris-Short, Steven Vaughan and Richard Young
Contributors: Birmingham Law School (Birmingham, England). Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781849466554
Subjects: Law; Congresses; Study and teaching
Description: "We are currently witnessing an unprecedented transformation in the legal profession and legal education. The Legal Services Act 2007 and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have enabled and necessitated dramatic structural changes to the profession, as well as impacting on its ethos and ethicality. The Legal Education and Training Review promises similarly dramatic change to the provision of legal education, reflecting the shifting landscape of both the legal professional market and higher education in general. These transformative changes bring both exciting opportunities and challenges. This edited collection comprises a selection of papers presented at the second conference of CEPLER, Birmingham Law School's Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research. It brings together leading academic scholars, senior figures from professional practice, policymakers and representatives of the regulatory authorities, to reflect on the key issues arising from this transformative moment."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Papers from a second conference held in October 2013 by Birmingham Law School's Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The futures of legal education and the legal profession  -- Hilary Sommerlad, Richard Young, Steven Vaughan and Sonia Harris-Short; title: Professionalism, enterprise and the market : contradictory or complementary?  -- Julia Evetts; title: Financialisation by proxy : the case of large city law firms  -- James R. Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio; title: Delivering family justice : new ways of working for lawyers in divorce and separation  -- Mavis Maclean; title: Judicial diversity and the 'new' judge  -- Rosemary Hunter; title: The LETRs (still) in the post : the legal education and training review and the reform of legal services education and training : a personal (re)view  -- Julian Webb; title: Poor thinking, poor outcome? The future of the law degree after the legal education and training review and the case for socio-legalism  -- Andrew Sanders; title: Creating a more flexible approach to education and training  -- Alex Roy; title: The future of legal education from the profession's viewpoint : a brave new world?  -- Tony King; title: An agenda for research on the legal profession and legal education : one American's perspective -- Richard L. Abel.