The Centre for Legal Education enjoys the support of an International Advisory Committee (“IAC”) of senior legal academics and practitioners from around the world. The IAC liaise with and advise the Centre as well as share in the mutual benefits arising from an international specialist network. We hope to continue to develop this committee and to facilitate links between those committed to legal education across the world.
The members of the committee are:
Taher Aboueleid (Egypt)
Taher is a judge of the Cairo Court of Appeal. His interests include:
- As the founder of the legal education reform initiative in Egypt, raising awareness of the importance of reform by publications, workshops and through social media
- Designing and delivering innovative, high quality, research-informed teaching activities and materials
- A plan to develop a legal education reform initiative in Arab states.
Bernhard Bergmans (Germany)
Bernhard’s interests include:
- Systematization of legal education by working out different profiles of lawyers (resp. market needs) and an optimized system of diverse legal education models
- Understanding of the essence of legal learning by using input from different sources (legal methodology, psychology, neuroscience, pedagogy, philosophy)
- Values in legal education
Kim Economides (Australia)
Kim’s interests focus on the role of law schools in laying foundations of professionalism, primarily through introducing law teachers and students to ethical perspectives on the changing nature of legal work. He has served on legal education committees and worked in law schools in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He was a founder member of the International Legal Ethics Conference. Kim currently is working on a new Global Access to Justice Project (Regional Co-ordinator for Oceania, and Thematic Co-ordinator for Professional Legal Ethics and Anthropological/Postcolonial approaches that learn from First Nations Peoples).
John Flood (Australia)
John Flood is Professor of Law and Society at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he established the Law Futures research centre. He has previously held chairs in the UK and Ireland as well as visiting positions in the US, Germany and the UK. His research focuses on the legal profession–its structure, social world, regulation, education and globalization. His latest studies are looking at the role of technology in changing how law is done and how professional roles are adapting, or not. John can be followed at https://johnflood.blogspot.com and on twitter @johnaflood.
Ernesto Riffo (Chile)
Ernesto’s interests focus on the challenges to the development of professional competencies within the context of the traditional curricular structure and teaching methodologies common in law schools in civil law systems. Since 2014 he heads the committee in charge of curriculum redesign at the Law School of the Silva Henríquez Catholic University, where he teaches legal theory and legal methodology.
Paul Wood KC (Canada)
Paul is a lawyer and legal educator and former Executive Director, Legal Education Society of Alberta. The Legal Education Society of Alberta provides mandatory bar admission training and continuing professional development to students, lawyers and law firm staff in the province of Alberta, Canada. Paul was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2012.
Paul has strong personal interests in lawyer competencies, the assessment of competencies, and experiential learning supporting the development and enhancement of lawyer competence.