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Dr Alwyn Jones

Job: Principal Lecturer

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Research group(s): Human Rights Research Group

Address: The Gateway, 51Âþ»­, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: + (0)116 207 8045

E: apjones@dmu.ac.uk

W: /bal

 

Personal profile

Alwyn teaches courses in Constitutional & Administrative Law, Housing Law, Human Rights and Social Justice, Immigration & Refugee Law and Lawyering: Theory, Skills and Ethics at undergraduate level.  He was the co-ordinator for our client interviewing and mooting competitions; he is the supervisor of our Street Law project, which won the 51Âþ»­ Students’ Union prize for Best Volunteering Group in 2012.  He has written on housing law, human rights and lawyers’ ethics.    

Publications and outputs

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Research interests/expertise

Social housing law; human rights, refugee law and social justice; The theory, skills and ethics of lawyers’ work. 

Areas of teaching

Constitutional & Administrative Law, Housing Law, Human Rights and Social Justice, Immigration & Refugee Law and Lawyering: Theory, Skills and Ethics.

Qualifications

LLB (Hons) (Bristol, 1994), LLM (Essex, 1995), PhD (Leicester, 2007).    

Courses taught

Constitutional & Administrative Law, Housing Law, Human Rights and Social Justice, Immigration & Refugee Law and Lawyering: Theory, Skills and Ethics.    

Honours and awards

Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007. 

Membership of external committees

2000 – May 2012: member, management committee of the Park Lodge Project, a charity providing supported housing for homeless young people. Current: No 

Membership of professional associations and societies

Member, Socio-Legal Studies Association and Society of Legal Scholars (since the early 2000s).    

Conference attendance

I presented papers at the following conferences:

  • “Values, Reflection and Moral Courage: a workshop on preparing for professional virtue” (with Nigel Duncan of City University) workshop for the annual conference of the Association of Law Teachers, Cardiff, April 2011
  • “Teaching Legal Ethics” presented at the annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Southampton University, September 2010

Current research students

I am supervising two research students. I am a second supervisor for both students.

Professional esteem indicators

I have occasionally peer reviewed journal articles for the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education and the Law Teacher.

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