RESEARCH PROFILE

Julian's current research interests focus on legal education policy and theory; the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers; social and legal theory (especially the phenomenology of law, autopoiesis and complexity theory), and the 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, and an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple. From May 2006 until its closure in 2011, 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 Conduct (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.

TEACHING PROFILE

Courses Taught

• Course Director, LLM Advanced Legal Studies
• Foundations of Socio-Legal Theory and Research (PhD)
  Module co-leader
• Critical Issues in Law and Management (WBS)
• Modern English Legal System (LLB/BA)
  Module leader

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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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, Abingdon: Routledge
• Webb, J. (2013) 'On Encountering Life and Learning With/out the Text' in The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life, 65 - 84, Editors: Zenon Bankowski and Maksymilian Del Mar, Farnham: Ashgate
• Webb J. (2011) 'The Body in (E)motion: Thinking throuh Embodiment in Legal Education' in Affect and Legal Education: Emotion in Learning and Teaching the Law, 211 - 233, Editors: Paul Maharg and Caroline Maughan, Farnham: Ashgate
• 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: Fiona Cownie, Hart Publishing
• Webb, J. (2009) The Penguin dictionary of law Editors: Webb, J., London: Penguin

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