RESEARCH PROFILE

Legal education; the legal profession (especially ethics and professional regulation); civil justice and dispute resolution; social and legal theory (especially the phenomenology of law, autopoiesis and complexity theory); ethics of socio-legal research.

BACKGROUND

Julian Webb, BA (CNAA), LLM, LLD (Warwick), FRSA, FHEA, joined Warwick as Professor of Legal Education in 2006. He is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. From May 2006 until its closure this year, he was Director of the UK Centre for Legal Education, based at the University of Warwick.

Julian has undertaken research and consultancy work for a range of academic and professional bodies in the UK and internationally, including work on access to undergraduate legal education for the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Training (1995), and, in 2005-6, as part of an international team funded by the Netherlands Council of the Judiciary exploring case assignment and impartiality in six European judiciaries. From 1998-2001 he was an Education Advisor to the (English) Bar Council, and, in 2001, he was appointed by the New Zealand Council of Legal Education to undertake a review of professional legal training in that jurisdiction. He is currently leading the research team undertaking a national review of legal education and training in England and Wales on behalf of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Bar Standards Board and ILEX Professional Standards.

Julian has also been involved in an advisory capacity in range of national and international projects, including membership of the expert advisory groups for an Australian Learning and Teaching Council project developing threshold learning outcomes for Australian law degrees (2009-10); the UK Quality Assurance Agency's Working Party on Contact Hours (2010-11), the advisory board of the Centre for Legal Education at the University of Hamburg, Germany (2010-), and as an expert consultant to the Taiwan Legal Information Institute (2011-12).

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Legal Services and Educational Training Review, with -, Funded by: Solicitors Regulation Authority, Project Start Date: 01/05/2011 Project End Date: 30/11/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Webb, J(2011) 'Taking values seriously: the democratic intellect and the place of values in the law school curriculum' in The Ethics Project in Legal Education, 9 - 32, Editors: Robertson, Corbin, Tranter and Bartlett (978-0-415-54651-5), Abingdon: Routledge
• Webb, J,Boon, A, (2010) 'The legal professions as stakeholders in the academy in England and Wales' in Stakeholders in the Law School, 65 - 95, Editors: Cownie, F (978-1-84113-721-6), Hart Publishing
• Webb, J.(2009) The Penguin dictionary of law Editors: Webb, J. (9780141027272) London: Penguin
• Webb, J.(2008) 'The dynamics of professionalism: the moral economy of English legal practice - and some lessons for New Zealand?' Waikato Law Review 16 21 - 45 (1172-9597)
• Boon, A. and Webb, J.(2008) 'Legal education and training in England and Wales: back to the future?' Journal Of Legal Education 58 (1), 79 - 121 (0022-2208)

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