School of Law

Andrew read Law at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 1995. He then stayed on at Birmingham to combine work as a research assistant for Professor John Baldwin with a part-time research Masters, which analysed the experiences of the first CABx to hold legal aid franchises. After leaving Birmingham he spent three years at the University of Glamorgan studying for a PhD which developed into the first major academic analysis of legal executives. He combined this with teaching public law for the Law School and research consultancy for the Associated Law Societies of Wales.

He joined the School of Law at Keele University in September 2000 and was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in 2008. He became Head of the School of Law on the 1st February 2011.

Andrew’s research interests include the legal profession, legal education and access to justice, including diversity issues. In developing a series of articles on legal executives, he was responsible for the first major academic analysis of this neglected branch of the legal profession.

Recent research includes a project funded by the Nuffield Foundation (with Iain McDonald of the University of West England) exploring the experiences and aspirations of part-time law students. He is currently working on a UKCLE funded project (with Professor Hilary Sommerlad) which analyses the role that ‘legal work experience’ plays in both mediating access to the profession and in socialisation.

Andrew is currently working on a book project At the Edge of Law: Divergent and Emergent Models of Legal Professionalism to be published by Ashgate early 2011.

Andrew is happy to supervise post-graduate research in empirical social-legal studies in the areas of regulation and legal services, particularly in the structure, history and role of the legal profession. He would also be interested in projects in the broad area of legal education.

Undergraduate Teaching:

Law – 10026: Public Law 2, LLB
Law-20020: Law & Ethics, LLB
Law- 20018: Law in Action, LLB
Law – 20021: Lawyers in Society, LLB
Law-30015: UG dissertations on legal education, the legal profession and public law

Postgraduate Teaching:

ETH-40008: Diploma in the Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care
Law-40008: Gender, Sexuality and Law LLM.
Law-40025: Masters in Social Science Research Methods in Law
SWK-40008: Masters in Social Work

Andrew is also responsible for Careers and Alumni Relations within the School and is always looking to hear news from our graduates.

Member of SLSA
Member of Society of Legal Scholars
External Associate at the Centre for Research into Diversity in the Professions