Julian Webb

RESEARCH PROFILE

Legal education; the legal profession (especially ethics and professional regulation); civil justice and dispute resolution; social and legal theory (especially the phenomenology of law, autopoiesis and complexity theory); ethics of socio-legal research.

BACKGROUND

Julian Webb, BA (CNAA), LLM, LLD (Warwick), FRSA, FHEA, is Professor of Legal Education, Director of the Higher Education Academy UK Centre for Legal Education, and a Senior Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London .

Julian has published widely on legal education, the legal profession and lawyers' ethics. He is a member of the advisory boards for four journals: the International Journal of the Legal Profession, Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, Revista Educación y Derecho, and Legal Ethics. From 1998 to 2008 he was a founding editor of the latter. With Dr John Paterson, University of Aberdeen, he also edits the "Law, Science and Society" book series published by Routledge-Cavendish. He has been an education adviser to the General Council of the Bar, and has undertaken research and consultancy for a number of professional bodies, including the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Legal Education and Conduct, the Dutch Council of the Judiciary, the Law Society of England and Wales and the New Zealand Council of Legal Education.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Webb J (2008) 'The Dynamics of Professionalism: The Moral Economy of English Legal Practice - and Some Lessons for New Zealand' Waikato Law Review 16 21 - 45 (1172-9597)
• Webb, J., Burridge, R., (2008) 'On Liberal Neutrality, the Value of Experience and the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Academic' Law Teacher 42 (3), 339 - 354 (0306-9400)
• Webb, J., Burridge, R., (2008) 'The Values of Common Law Legal Education Reprised' Law Teacher 42 (3), 263 - 269 (0306-9400) [article]
• Boon A & Webb J (2008) 'Legal Education and Training in England and Wales: Back to the Future?' Journal Of Legal Education 58 (1), 79 - 121 (0022-2208)
• Burridge R. Webb J (2007) 'The Values of Common Law Legal Education: Rethinking Rules, Responsibilities, Relationships and Roles in the Law School' Legal Ethics 10 (1), 72 - 97 (1460-728X)

Further Publications