Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Avrom Sherr
- Qualifications:
- Law (LSE) 1971. PhD (Warwick) on
- Position:
- Emeritus Professor
- Institute:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
- Location:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Charles Clore House 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR
- Phone:
- 020 7862 5859
- Email address:
- avrom.sherr@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://ials.sas.ac.uk/about/staff/staff.asp?ID=37
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Human rights
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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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
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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 01-Jan-2006 The Case of the Common Law in European Legal Education - Research Projects & Supervisions
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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
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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
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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
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- Available for consultancy:
- Yes