Lucy Blackburn
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Lucy is a qualified solicitor and prior to joining UCLan, she was a practising solicitor specialising in all aspects of Commercial Property. Lucy teaches on both the undergraduate degree and the LLM in Legal Practice; her areas of expertise include all areas of Property and Land Law, Clinical Legal Education and Employability.
Lucy graduated from the University of Leicester with an honours degree in Law and completed her LLM and Legal Practice Course at the Lancashire Law School. Lucy is an active member of the Clinical Legal Education community and her research focuses on Clinical Legal Education, law clinics and legal practice. Her articles have been published in various international journals and she has spoken extensively about Clinical Legal Education at conferences in Canada, Italy, South Africa and Slovakia, as well as within the UK. She is a leading authority on Qualifying Work Experience gained in Law Clinics and she has consulted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society of England and Wales on this subject. In September 2022, Lucy launched the Advice and Resolution Centre.
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2007
- Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, UCLan, 2005
- LLM, International Business Law, UCLan, 2004
- LLB (Hons), Law, University of Leicester, 2003
- Clinical Legal Education
- Professional Legal Education
- Real Property
- External examiner for Northumbria University Lancaster University
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
- Member of the Legal Education Sub-committee, Society of Legal Scholars
- Co-chair of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation
- Member of the Attorney General’s Pro Bono Committee for England and Wales
Lucy is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Legal Practice. The central theme of her doctorate is Clinical Legal Education and Law Clinics.
Publications
- A. Todd & L. Blackburn, (2023). Qualifying Work Experience in England and Wales: The Opportunities and Risks Presented to University Law Clinics. Asian Journal of Legal Education, 10(1), 101-110.
- L. Blackburn, (2022) ‘Qualifying Work Experience Guidance for University Law Clinics’ International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 29 (1) 81- 05.
- Blackburn (2020) ‘How ephebagogy is at the core of Clinical Legal Education’ International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 27 (2) 135-154.
- L. Blackburn, ‘Reimagining the Clinician Profile’ in L. Thomas, S. Vaughan, B. Malkani & T. Lynch (eds), Reimagining Clinical Legal Education (Hart 2019).
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- ‘Reflections on my positionality as a clinician researching clinicians. Is insider status a help or hinderance?’, Worldwide Global Alliance for Justice Conference, Stellenbosch University, December 2022
- ‘Qualifying Work Experience in England and Wales: help or hinderance for clinic innovation?’ (with Andy Todd, University of Chester) Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education, virtual June 2022
- ‘Qualifying Work Experience and Street Law’ UK & Ireland Street Law Conference, Edinburgh, April 2022
- ‘Reflections on developing a prison-based law and tax clinic in the middle of a pandemic’ (virtual) Global Alliance for Justice Education/International Journal of Clinical Legal Education/Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education, June 2021
- ‘Self-employment support virtual clinic’ (with Deborah Wood, UCLan) Association of Law Teachers Conference, (virtual) April 2021
Telephone:+1772 892790
Email: Email:Lucy Blackburn
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