Legal Systems & Skills

About Catherine ShephardJudith EmbleyPeter GoodchildScott Slorach

Scott Slorach (consultant editor) is a Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning at York Law School University of York. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde and has previously held visiting roles in Australia and Singapore. A qualified solicitor with City experience he is currently co-author of Business Law (OUP). Scott specializes in the design delivery assessment and review of legal education at all levels; he has held various roles with the SRA and worked on projects with a range of HE institutions regulators and law firms. Judith Embley recently retired as an Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980 practising in a Lincolns Inn firm and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerbys College and then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She joined the University of Law in 2001 where she has taught contract commercial and business financial law. She now contributes to the design of graduate and postgraduate course materials and assessments as a visiting lecturer. She is joint author of Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and Practice and Legal Foundations two of the University of Laws Legal Practice Guides. Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor and National Programme Director for Law Conversion Courses at the University of Law. He read Politics Philosophy and Economics at St. Anne's College Oxford then attended the University of Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1997 into commercial practice. He joined the University of Law in 2000 where he has taught the English legal system contract tort ethics commercial IP and business structures law. Peter is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In addition to over twenty years of teaching experience he has wide experience of designing programmes and has been an author of texts on tort commercial law IP law and the English legal system. Catherine Shephard is a Reader in Practice-Informed Legal Education at Manchester Law School. She read law at Emmanuel College Cambridge and practised as a solicitor in corporate finance. Catherines work responds to the increasing emphasis on skills and the growing alignment between academic and professional legal education. Drawing on her experience in professional legal practice and leadership in professional and academic legal education Catherine communicates her ideas through books journal articles professional practice publications conference papers presentations and in the classroom. Catherine enjoys working collaboratively with leading law firms in-house legal departments legal education providers widening participation charities PSRBs and her colleagues and students.