Avrom Sherr

What clients know: client perspectives and legal competence

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Legal Ethics in England and Wales

This article explores the ethical regulation of solicitors and compares it to that of doctors. It summarises the findings for England and Wales from an EU funded project of legal ethics.

The ‘control’ orthodoxy in England and Wales – a retrospective review

Mr Abel is, as we discover from the end cover of this book, professor of Law at the University of California. Until then we had supposed that his subject was sociology or statistics, for there is not much law in what he writes – perhaps little more than references to the Solicitors Act and jurisdiction of various courts and tribunals. Never the less, his subject ought to be of some interest to some lawyers, and to those who seek to enter – or to reform – the legal professions. By way of exception we would exclude his first chapter, called Theories of the Professions, which is filled with the learning and jargon of sociology.

An overture for well-tempered regulators: four variations on a LETR theme

This paper is a development of the Association of Law Teachers’ annual Lord Upjohn lecture, delivered on 29 January 2015 at City Law School, London, by the principal investigators of the Legal Education and Training Review’s (LETR) research team. In it, each of the authors takes a different theme arising from the LETR Report, and explores its implications and application, focusing on research and innovation; access and flexibility; deprofessionalisation, and, finally, reflecting on the way the Report addressed themes of common training, oversupply and access to justice. As our title indicates, the paper comprises both individual performances and performance as a consort, and we hope that in this way, we enact one of our key themes: the social nature of legal education and its regulation.

Midnight in the garden of the CFA people

The authors put forward their views on conditional fee agreements (CFAs) and the Report of the SALS Working Party on the Ethics of Conditional Fee Arrangements. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Complaints – What clients want and lawyers want

Brief commentary on reports arising out of work carried out at the Institute into legal services and mechanisms for handling complaints and discipline. Comment by Professor Avrom Sherr published in the First Page feature of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Who is your favourite lawyer

A note about the problems of image for law and lawyers. Published in the First Page feature of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Robert Stevens – the books

University to Uni: The Politics of Higher Education in England since 1944 (Politico’s, 2004), 220 pp.; revised edition, 2005, 238 pp. The English Judges: Their Role in the Changing Constitution (Oxford, Richard Hart, 2002), 170 pp. The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor’s Office (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993), 220 pp.; paperback, 1997. The American Law School: Legal Education in America 1850–1980 (Chapel Hill, NC & London, University of North Carolina Press, 1983), 404 pp.; paperback, 1986. Republished by the Law Book Exchange, New Jersey, 2002; Chinese edition, China Political Science and Law University Publishing House, Beijing, 2002. Law and Politics: The House of Lords as a Judicial Body 1800–1976 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1978; London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1979), 701 pp. Welfare Medicine in America: A Case Study of Medicaid (New York, The Free Press, 1974; London, Crowell-Collier, 1975), 386 pp. (with Rosemary Stevens). Republished by Transaction Press, New York, 2003. Statutory History of the United States: Income Security (Chelsea, House-McGraw Hill, 1970); 919 pp. (Editor). In Search of Justice: Law, Society and the Legal System (London, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1968; New York, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1969), 384 pp. (with Brian Abel-Smith). Lawyers and the Courts: A Sociological Study of the English Legal System 1750–1965 (London, Heinemann, 1967; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968), xiv and 504 pp.; paperback, 1969 (with Brian Abel-Smith). The Restrictive Practices Court: A Study of the Judicial Process and Economic Policy (London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965), 260 pp. (with Basil Yamey). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, VOL. 16, NO. 1, MARCH 2009

Legal education for specialisation

This article reports a brief study of how legal education across Europe prepares lawyers for specialisation. It was carried out as part of a larger project on legal education which took place between 1998 and 2000. The CICERO Project funded through ELFA considered nine themes in the area of legal education across Europe. Theme 7 was `Legal Education for Specialisation’ . A new co-ordinator for this theme was appointed within the last 9 months of the project and a correspondingly limited amount of information was available during that period. Information which was made available came from the following sources:

Globalisation and legal education

In recent years, the meaning of globalisation for the character and future of legal education has started to receive sustained attention. A diverse, transnational group of scholars has begun to clarify both the processes by which globalisation impacts on legal education, and legal education impacts on globalisation. Because the interface between globalisation and legal education is important, and has only recently begun to be investigated, we present several case studies and overviews of the impact of globalisation on legal education, embracing diþ erent national and theoretical perspectives in order to complement and extend the existing literature. In this special issue, an international team of scholars addresses the challenges to law schools posed by globalisation. How is globalisation impacting on the ways of thinking, teaching and collaborative enterprise that have characterised legal education and scholarship, and the culture of the ® eld of law, in late modernity? How might we understand, criticise and reconstruct the present form(s) of globalisation? Taken together the essays in this special issue oþ er a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, economic, intellectual and ideological processes through which the identity and culture of law schools are being recon® gured, debated and articulated in the era of globalisation. In particular, issues of deprofessionalisation, professional autonomy, commercialism, and alternative mechanisms of regulation and control within diþ erent national professional arenasÐ issues which have received rather more extended treatment in the context of recent trends in the organisation of lawyers and legal servicesÐ are examined and problematised. The range and complexity of the issues raised by globalisation are such that ours is inevitably a limited foray into relatively uncharted waters. In addition to imparting an organised body of knowledge, however, we hope to bring the globalisation debate closer to home and start a conversation about the kind of law schools and legal practices that could and should be sustained in societies characterised both by economic integration and legal, economic, political and cultural diversity.