Education

CEPLER has developed a series of final year modules incorporating practice-perspectives and employing innovative assessment methods:

• Regulation of the Legal Profession examines lawyers' duties and obligations, professionalism and codes of conduct, diversity, access to justice, legal education, and free movement of legal professionals within the EU. 
• Advocacy allows students to engage with court room advocacy and there is an emphasis on mooting. The course involves court visits and other advocacy skills such as mediation and negotiation.
• Employment Law gives students an insight into the theory and practice of employment law relating to individual rights, drawing on clinical legal education models, in a simulated practice setting to introduce topics such as unfair dismissal and discrimination, as well as professional conduct issues. 
• Real Estate Law builds on knowledge gained in the core Land Law module and gives insight into theory and practice, adopting a problem-based learning approach with students researching problems.
• Global Legal Services looks at transnational legal services and their international regulatory arrangements, examining factors that affect lawyers and clients engaged in cross-border legal practice. It also covers areas such as: citizenship, recognition, scope of monopoly, organisation and training of lawyers, publicity rules, anti-bribery/corruption regulations, and legal services delivered by non-lawyers.

CEPLER is committed to exploring new and innovative approaches to developing and delivering the law curriculum.

The "Reimagining" Series was established to fund and organise legal education workshops, bringing together specialist groups of academics and practitioners to debate and reflect on new concepts, share best practice and develop subject-specialist networks.

Here is a list of the subjects our Reimagining Workshops has examined so far, some of which have generated CEPLER Working Paper reports:

• Reimagining the Teaching of Criminal Law: this took place in September 2014 and was led by Dr Imogen Jones.
• Reimagining Clinical Legal Education: this March 2015 workshop, led by Linden Thomas, developed into an edited collection of same title published by Hart - further details can be found here.
• Reimagining Land Law: held in September 2017 and hosted by Emily Carroll, this event spawned the Network of Land and Property Teachers (NETLAP)
• Reimagining EU Law: Brexit and the Law School: this November 2017 workshop was led by Professor Martin Trybus.
• Reimagining Family Law: the radical curriculum: this workshop was hosted by Dr Mairead Enright in May 2018.
• Reimagining Health Law: this event took place in September 2018 and was led by Professor Jean McHale.
• Reimagining Environmental Law: hosted in January 2019 by Dr Aleks Cavoski.