When: Thursday, October 24, 2024, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PMWhere: TBC
The power and potential of public education: translating the Street Law methodology
Street Law* is a globally respected and practiced tool for Public Legal Education. The methodology used in this important discipline has immense potential to shape and form the way that we communicate, inform and inspire people across and between disciplines. In this interactive session authors of Street Law: Theory and Practice will explain and demonstrate the Street Law methodology, and there will be an opportunity to examine how it can be used in other disciplines and professional contexts.
*a form of public legal education which aims to increase legal literacy and improve social justice through the use of interactive and learner-centred methods.
Frances Ridout is the Director of the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre based within the Department of Law, and a practising barrister. In addition to her duties as the QMLAC Director, Frances teaches two clinical legal education modules; The Practice of Law in a Clinical Environment and Public Legal Education and Community Street Law which are on the undergraduate degree programmes. Frances is an expert in the current law surrounding the sharing of intimate images, and regularly speaks on this topic. She is also Deputy Director for Queen Mary's Hub for Professional Practice, which aims to impact the future of practice through research-informed life-long education.
Linden Thomas is a Reader in Clinical Legal Education and Pro Bono at The University of Birmingham. She is currently Head of Education for Birmingham Law School. She spent several years as supervising solicitor for Birmingham Law School’s Clinical Legal Education programme, overseeing students’ participation in law clinics, Streetlaw, externships and research and policy based pro bono initiatives. She is a trustee of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation and co-founder of the annual UK and Ireland Streetlaw Best Practices conference. She researches and publishes on Clinical Legal Education and was lead editor of the 2018 edited collection ‘Reimagining Clinical Legal Education’. She is also co-editor of the Clinical Legal Education Handbook, a free, open access guide to CLE, published by The University of London in May 2020 and co-author of Street Law: Theory and Practice.
This is part of the Alumni Seminar Series.