<% Server.Transfer("/upjohn.asp") %> The Association of Law Teachers (ALT) - 2015 Lord Upjohn Lecture

The Association of Law Teachers presents the 2015 Lord Upjohn Lecture

Friday 13 November 2015, from 5.30pm

Tripping over thresholds; capturing the legal learning process in outcomes

Professor Rebecca Huxley-Binns

This lecture will explore the nature of law as a learned discipline, using the process of leading the review group responsible for writing the 2015 QAA Law Subject Benchmark Statement, but within a broader framework of threshold concepts. It will consider how the process of learning the law can irreversibly transform the learner, and will include a examination of liminal spaces (troublesome places in learning) in law and the teacher’s role in promoting the students’ transformation and in facilitating (nudging) their successful crossing of the legal learning threshold and meeting a learning outcome. The lecture will set legal learning primarily in the undergraduate context in England and Wales, but it will also include references to graduateness (in law and more widely) and comment on the place of an undergraduate law degree in the legal regulatory landscape.

Biography: Professor Becky Huxley-Binns is Vice Provost, Academic Enhancement, at the University of Law. She previously held a Chair in Legal Education and was CoDirector of the Nottingham Law School Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Trent University. She was Chair of the QAA Review Group for the 2015 Law Subject Benchmark Statement. Very experienced at teaching all levels of legal education from GCSE to Doctorate level, Becky has also been a senior examiner for A level law, Principal Examiner for Criminal Law for CILEX and is an experienced external examiner to University Law Schools. Widely published in legal education, Criminal Law and English Legal System, Becky is a National Teaching Fellow, ex-Chair of the Association of Law Teachers and was Law Teacher of the Year in 2010.

The 2015 Annual lecture takes place at: The Atkin Building Lecture Theatre, City Law School, Gray's Inn, London WC1R 5AT on Friday 13 November 2015 from 5.30pm. Refreshments will be provided

The event is free, but registration is required by Friday 16 October, by following this link.