Legal Systems & Skills

Scott Slorach is the Director of Learning & Teaching at York Law School at the University of York. He holds Visiting Professorial roles at the University of Strathclyde and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Law, New South Wales. He has over twenty years' experience in design and delivery of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional legal education programmes. A qualified solicitor with City experience, he was author of Corporate Finance (OUP) and is currently co-author of Business Law (OUP). Judith Embley is Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980, practising in a Lincoln's Inn firm and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerby's 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 is now a course developer and is joint author of Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and Practice, one of the University of Law's Legal Practice Guides. Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor 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, commercial, and business structures law. In addition to over ten years of teaching experience, he has wide experience of designing programmes and is a co-author of texts on commercial law, IP law and the English legal system. Catherine Shephard is Senior Lecturer, Programme Director of Legal Practice Management and Subject Leader of corporate practice and legal skills and practice at Manchester Metropolitan University. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, practised as a solicitor in corporate finance and has extensive experience of designing, delivering and assessing a wide range of skills, law and management programmes to solicitors in practice and to students at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Law. Catherine has a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education with distinction, was the author of Public Companies and Equity Finance, and is on the expert database of BBC North.

PART I: LEGAL SYSTEMS; PART II: LEGAL SKILLS; PART III: EMPLOYABILITY AND COMMERCIAL AWARENESS