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Description
The Department of Law at Birmingham City University sits within the School of Law and Social Sciences and is a large, vibrant, collegiate, and diverse community of legal scholarship, learning and practicing with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation and transformation through legal research and practice-based education. The Department of Law provides academic and professional legal education across all levels, from foundation year to PhD, including our flagship LLB, LLM programmes and Professional/ Legal Practice LLM offer. The Department is home to well over a thousand students and has trained many of the legal professionals in the region and beyond.
Description
The Department of Law at Birmingham City University sits within the School of Law and Social Sciences and is a large, vibrant, collegiate, and diverse community of legal scholarship, learning and practicing with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation and transformation through legal research and practice-based education. The Department of Law provides academic and professional legal education across all levels, from foundation year to PhD, including our flagship LLB, LLM programmes and Professional/ Legal Practice LLM offer. The Department is home to well over a thousand students and has trained many of the legal professionals in the region and beyond.
The Department of Law is currently looking to appoint a candidate who is a qualified Solicitor or Barrister with a valid practicing certificate and recent practice experience. The successful candidate will help develop and grow the suite of clinic offerings within BCU’s TEF rated ‘outstanding’ Law Clinic and will be integral to delivering the Law Clinic’s strategy of growth and diversification to facilitate opportunity for all our students with a view to good graduate outcomes and employability. A core focus will be ‘work readying’ students for the evolving graduate jobs market in the age of increased global and technological challenges and opportunities.
The successful candidate will have responsibility within the law clinic working with the current Law Clinic Director in relation to various voluntary law clinic activities and assessed placements. The Law Clinic works very closely with Central England Law Centre, Support Through Court and Citizen’s Advice. A focus is driving growth with private practicing for students to gain practical and meaningful experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate level at a range of placement opportunities.
The School has a proud tradition of professional legal education and is home to a large Law Clinic as well as an emerging focus of research specialisation in the field of legal education, including clinical pedagogy. We are extremely proud of the intimate and innovative links between our research, professional practicing and teaching. The School has a research informed and practicing focused philosophy regarding teaching and our entire suite of undergraduate programmes have been designed to allow students to enjoy a curriculum which reflects the expertise of the academic community of the School.
Interviews will be held in the week commencing 11 September 2025
Informal enquiries regarding the role should be addressed to Fiona Farrell, the BCU Law Clinic Director at fiona.farrell@bcu.ac.uk
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The University is committed to internationalism and diversity and welcomes applications from all countries, faiths and backgrounds.
It is each individual successful applicants responsibility to ensure that they have permission to work in the UK. Some applicants may require sponsorship from the University and a visa from UKVI to take up the role if successful. More information on this can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa
Some roles are not capable of sponsorship because they do not meet the UKVI criteria relating to skill and salary level. If you are unsure as to whether you would require sponsorship if successful, or whether the role is capable of sponsorship, please contact us: RTinbox@bcu.ac.uk
Please note on occasions where we receive a large number of applications, we may close the advert ahead of the publicised closing date. If this does happen, we will contact all candidates via email who have started but not yet completed their application, giving 48 hours’ notice. We would therefore advise that you submit your completed application as soon as possible.
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