Re-imagining advocacy workshop

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL AND THERE ARE NO MORE PLACES AVAILABLE

Join the Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research (CEPLER) at the University of Birmingham Law School for a one-day in-person workshop exploring the evolving landscape of advocacy. It will be a forum to discuss key challenges and share best practice ideas about effective advocacy teaching, in both curricular/co-curricular and undergraduate/postgraduate settings.

Key topics

• When law stops being an exercise: teaching advocacy in conditions of turbulence - lessons from wartime legal education (Associate Professor Dr Larysa Zhdankina, University of Glasgow)
• Enhancing vocational preparedness: drama-based learning to build confidence, manage performance anxiety, and support vocational learning in Law and Medicine students (Professor Gianna Bouchard and Associate Professor Dr Mary S O’Hanlon, University of Birmingham)
• Advocacy Club: boosting student confidence and enhancing advocacy skills (John Dove, barrister at Charterhouse Chambers and founder of Advocacy Club)
• A critical reflection of a mooting module: illuminating class and power relations, and the function of language (Associate Professor Theresa Lynch, University of Birmingham)
• Advocacy beyond the courtroom: introducing civic advocacy to law students (Associate Professor Dr Audrey Cook, University of Birmingham)