Re-imagining advocacy workshop

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)