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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Human rights

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Professor Sherr's main areas of interest have been the development of legal education, the sociology of the legal profession, ethics in professional work and the provision of legal services. He has also been involved in human rights generally and has written in the area of freedom of protest. Work on discrimination relating to AIDS/HIV and the issues of welfare rights provision within health care.

Avrom Sherr has been the principal architect of the concept and system of competence assessment in publicly funded legal aid work. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, was the project leader producing the seminal report "Willing Blindness" on regulation of the legal profession, and has coordinated a number of trans-European projects on legal ethics, money laundering, legal and accountancy practitioner defaults and discrimination.

He also acts as a consultant to government and professional bodies in relation to access to justice and professional training and discipline and is a member of Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's Legal Services Consumer Board.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jun-2013	Setting Standards. The Future of the Legal Services Education and Training Regulation in England and Wales Monographs With Webb, Ching Maharg,et al, IPS, BSB, SRA,
01-Jan-2012	Shrinking Legal Aid, Unrepresented Litigants and Judicial Independence Chapter 27 in The Culture of Judicial Independence - conceptual Foundations and practical Challenges, Shetreet, S, Forsyth, C (Eds) Koninklijke Brill NV
01-Jan-2012	The Hamlyn Lectures, Jeremy Waldron, The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property Introduction, Cambridge University Press
01-Jan-2011	A Special Relationship? American Influences on English Legal Education, c. 1870-1965 International Journal of the Legal Profession. Special Issue. Symposium in Honour of William Twining, co-edited by Avrom Sherr and David Sugarman. Vol. 18, issues 1 & 2. pp. 7-57
01-Jan-2011	Policing the Conflict in South Africa; Professor Anthony Mathews and the Pietermaritzburg Conference of June 1991, Law, Order and Liberty, Essays in Honour of Tony Mathews, Carnelley and Hoctor (Eds) University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
01-Jan-2010	The Hamlyn Lectures, Tom Bingham Widening Horizons: the influence of comparative law and international law on domestic law Cambridge University Press
01-Jul-2009	The 'control' orthodoxy in England and Wales - a retrospective review International Journal of the Legal Profession, 16: 2, 153 — 165
03-Apr-2009	The 'Clients' of the Publicly Funded Lawyer in "Delivering Effective Effective Legal Aid Services across Diverse Communities International Legal Aid Group
01-Jan-2009	Effectiveness of Online Dispute Resolution in the County Court Ministry of Justice
01-Jan-2006	At Century’s Dawn – Future and Past of Human Rights and Rule of Law http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/261/
01-Jan-2006	The Case of the Common Law in European Legal Education http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/270/

Publications available on SAS-space

Additional Publications

Publications available in Senate House Libraries

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
SRA, BSB and IPS Review of Legal Education with Julian Webb, University of Warwick, Paul Maharg, Northumbria Law School and Jane Ching, Nottingham Law School

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
Advice Quality Standard Management Committee
Legal Education Research Network (LERN)
Hamlyn Trust	Chair
Advisory Panel for the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education	Chair
Advisory Board and Strategy Committee of the UK Centre for Legal Education	Chair

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
International Journal of the Legal Profession		Founding Editor

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2011	Presentation of Conference Paper International Conference, New Perspectives of Legal Education in Europe, Berlin
01-Jan-2010	Presentation of Conference Paper International Sociological Association Working Group on the Legal Professions, Gif sur Yvette,
01-Jan-2010	Presentation of Conference Paper Legal Services Research Centre Conference, Cambridge
01-Jan-2010	Presentation of Conference Paper 5th Annual Meeting - Hague Rule of Law Network
01-Jan-2009	Presentation of Conference Paper Israeli Law and Society Conference
01-Jan-2009	Opening Plenary International Corporate Fraud Conference
01-Jan-2009	Opening Plenary International Symposium on Legal Aid, Seoul, Korea
01-Jan-2009	Keynote Speaker Clinical Law Seminar, Institute of Clinical Legal Education, Waseda University, Japan
01-Jan-2009	Invited Closing Plenary Conference in Honour of Professor Richard Abel, UCLA, Los Angeles

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes

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