Inclusive legal education
This Conference aims to pave to breakthrough research on how to advance ‘inclusive legal education’.
Date and time
Location
Harvard Style Lecture Theatre, Broadcasting Place, Leeds Beckett University
City Campus Woodhouse Woodhouse LS2 9EN United KingdomAgenda
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Registration: Beverages on arrival and pastries
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Opening remarks: Professor Deveral Capps
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Session 1: Professor Anna Lawson
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session 2: Dr Stephen Bunbury
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Session 3: Professor Debbie Foster
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Closing remarks
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Reception drinks
About this event
- Event lasts 8 hours
This conference aims to pave to breakthrough research on how to advance ‘inclusive legal education’ by examining what should be envisaged towards increasing the inclusion of disabled students into law schools.
The conference concerns the achievement of 'inclusive legal education' for disabled students. It addresses the following questions, amongst others:
- What distinct features do law schools possess that may hinder the participation of disabled students in the learning process?
- What are the narratives and assumptions underlying the definition of skills required to succeed in the legal profession?
- How is the issue of disability represented in the various modules and how to develop a view that is rooted in the social model of disability?
- How can the provision of legal education cater better to the wider range of human differences?
- How to transform the law schools into more inclusive, equitable educational environments?
- How to provide disabled students in due course with gateways to the legal profession?
This event will cover three distinct yet interrelated themes.
The first theme relates to how the issue of disability is presented across the various modules. It considers the approach to disability taken by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its benefit for other modules when questions relating to disability surface.
The second theme explores the kind of institutional practices that are susceptible to create hurdles for disabled students. It considers the constraints imposed that might not necessarily be an integral part of the competency standards paying particular attention to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE).
The third theme concerns ways to streamline the transition of disabled students to employment. It looks at action to be taken so that these students do not feel to ‘fall off the cliff’ when they enter the legal profession.
This conference has been organised by Gauthier de Beco Professor of Law on behalf of the Leeds Law School and funded by the Modern Law Review (MLR) Seminar Funding.