| Avrom Sherr is Woolf Professor of Legal Education at
the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London. His first
degree (LL.B) was from the London School of Economics, which was followed by qualification
as a solicitor with the city firm of Coward Chance. He taught at Warwck University
from 1974 onwards and was the Director of the Legal Practice Programme which involved
students in three clinical courses, partly providing legal services and mainly studying
the legal profession and the delivery of social and welfare law. Prior to his
current position, from 1990 to 1995, he was Professor of Law and Director of the Centre
for Business and Professional Law at Liverpool University. He
has a PhD degree from Warwick Uiversity relating to the importance of training and
experience in the development of legal competence. His main areas of study have been
legal skills, the legal profession and freedom of protest law as well as the working of
legal systems. He has been principally involved in directing the research on Legal
Aid Franchising in England and Wales durng the last nine years. |