Senior Lecturer in Law

Overview

The Department of Law at Birmingham City University sits within the School of Law and Social Sciences and is a large, vibrant, collegiate, and diverse community of legal scholarship, learning and practicing with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation and transformation through legal research and practice-based education. The Department of Law provides academic and professional legal education across all levels, from foundation year to PhD, including our flagship LLB, LLM programmes and Professional/ Legal Practice LLM offer. The Department is home to well over a thousand students and has trained many of the legal professionals in the region and beyond.

The Department of Law is currently looking to appoint a candidate who is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister with a valid practicing certificate and recent practice experience. The successful candidate will help develop and grow the suite of clinic offerings within BCU's TEF rated 'outstanding' Law Clinic and will be integral to delivering the Law Clinic's strategy of growth and diversification to facilitate opportunity for all our students with a view to good graduate outcomes and employability. A core focus will be 'work readying' students for the evolving graduate jobs market in the age of increased global and technological challenges and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Law Clinic alongside the current Law Clinic Director on various voluntary law clinic activities and assessed placements.
• Help drive growth with private practice for students to gain practical and meaningful experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across a range of placement opportunities.
• Collaborate with partner organisations to enhance opportunities for students (e.g., Central England Law Centre, Support Through Court and Citizen's Advice).

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor or Barrister with a valid practicing certificate and recent practice experience.

Additional information

There will also be an expectation of some educational delivery on our UG LLB law programme and/or our practice-facing LLMs (especially within our legal professional modules and SQE preparation courses).

The School has a proud tradition of professional legal education and is home to a large Law Clinic as well as an emerging focus of research specialisation in the field of legal education, including clinical pedagogy. We are extremely proud of the intimate and innovative links between our research, professional practicing and teaching. The School has a research informed and practice focused philosophy regarding teaching and our entire suite of undergraduate programmes have been designed to allow students to enjoy a curriculum which reflects the expertise of the academic community of the School.