Theresa Lynch

• LLM Criminal Litigation – Inns of Court School of Law (City University, London).
• Barrister at Law – called the Bar at Gray’s Inn
• Bar Vocational Course –Inns of Court School of Law (City University, London).
• LLB Law – Liverpool John Moores University.

Theresa has an undergraduate degree in Law and an LLM in Criminal Litigation and has been called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn and is a non-practising barrister. She holds a Research master’s in education, that focused on Legal Education and Advocacy.

Prior to joining Birmingham Law School, she was employed by the Crown Prosecution Service, and she first joined the Law School as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant. Theresa is a founding member of the Law School’s Centre for Employability Professional Legal Education and Research (CEPLER). For over 10 years she developed the Centre’s Advocacy portfolio with a focus on implementing an inclusive approach to student experience, engagement and skills development in relation to the co-curricular activities of mooting, client interviewing, debating and negotiation. She also introduced and continues to module lead, a final year UG optional module called Advocacy (Mooting).

Theresa’s present role is as an Associate Professor. She is currently engaged in research which explores the use made of advocacy and particularly mooting, as a learning and teaching tool in Legal Education. Her other research interests are in the field of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

• Advocacy (Mooting); Module Leader
• Women and the Criminal Justice System; Module Leader
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Evidence and Proof
• Introduction to the Study of Law

Theresa’s research and teaching interests fall into two categories. She has an interest in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, with a focus on anti-social behaviour powers and their use against vulnerable groups, such as on street sex workers and the homeless.  Secondly, she has an interest in legal education, with a particular focus on the use which is made of advocacy as a teaching and learning tool in both curriculum and co-curricular based activities at the University level.