Legal Professions Research Group

This group is dedicated to the global study of the legal professions and legal professionalism, at a moment of rapid change and multiple challenges and opportunities for legal professionals

Legal Professions Research Group

Our Research Group

Based in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Education the aim of the Legal Professions Research Group (LPRG) is to promote world-leading, interdisciplinary and international research on legal professions, legal professionalism and legal education’s links with professional training. Together with our partners and affiliates from the wider academic and professional practice communities, the Group focuses on the role of lawyers and other legal services professionals in a rapidly changing world, and the challenges and opportunities they face.

Our Research

The last few decades have seen momentous changes to the legal profession, ranging from the technologies which are transforming its work, to its organisational and regulatory environment, and the varied and constantly shifting nature of its clients. Established in 2021, at the School of Law, the LPRG’s research addresses these changes and their impact, including the expansion, diversification and fragmentation of the profession.

We promote world-leading, interdisciplinary and international research on legal professions and legal professionalism and legal education’s links with professional training. The Group’s members have a breadth and diversity of research interests, incorporating a broad span of legal practice from corporate law to criminal law, regulatory to human rights and social justice; as noted in this selection of our past research projects. Our agenda is shaped by our engagement with both academic communities and with practitioners, professional bodies, policy makers and other stakeholders.

Our experts

Our team consists of leading experts in the field of legal profession scholarship and teaching, with extensive domestic and international experience in legal practice

National and International networks

The Group’s focus is both local and global. We have extensive domestic and international networks encompassing leading scholars in the field, practitioners, professional bodies, legal regulators and other stakeholders.