Perspectives on Legal Education: Contemporary Responses to the Lord Upjohn Lectures [Hardcover]

This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education set in the context of the Lord Upjohn Lectures, the annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and changes in the field.

Presented in a unique format that reproduces classic lectures alongside contemporary responses from legal education experts, this book offers both an historical overview of how these debates have developed and an up-to-date critical commentary on the state of legal education today. As the full impact of the introduction of university fees, the Legal Education and Training Review and the regulators responses are felt in law departments across England and Wales, this collection offers a timely reflection on legal educations legacy, as well as critical debate on how it will develop in the future.

1. The Upjohn Lectures And Legal Education, Chris Ashford, Nigel Duncan and Jess Guth  2. The Rt.Hon. Lord Upjohn, C.B.E.,D.L.: Honorary President of The Association of Law Teachers 19661971:An appreciation, I. H. Jacob  3. Lord Upjohn Lecture 2012: Reforming legal Education Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury  4. Response: A Tale of Two Cities: Reflecting on Reforming Legal Education , Julian Webb  5. The Annual Lord Upjohn Lecture 11 November 2011 Widening participation in a changing educational landscape Wes Streeting  6. Response: Transformation by Education, Graeme Broadbent  7. Thirty-ninth Lord Upjohn Lecture 2010: Training the Lawyers of the Future  a Regulator's View, David Edmonds  8.Response: Of Competence, Confidence and the Last Chance Saloon Professor Stephen Mayson (Legal Services Institutel'