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Dean of the School of Law

Professor Andy Boon

   

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Dean of School

boona@westminster.ac.uk

4 Little Titchfield Street

+44 (0)20 7911 5000 Ext.5153

+44 (0)20 7911 5821  

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Teaching

  • Lawyers' Skills
  • Common Law

Research Interests

  • Legal Profession
  • Legal Practice
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Education
  • Civil Litigation
  • Dispute Resolution

Biography

Professor Andrew Boon (Dean of School) Solicitor (admitted 1976). LL.B.(Leics.) 1973, PGCE (1986), Masters degree in Higher and Further Education (1990), Ph.D. (1999). Solicitor in private practice (1976-82) before joining South Bank Polytechnic as Senior Lecturer.  Honorary Legal Adviser at South Lambeth Citizens Advice Bureau between 1982 and 1989. Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Joined the University of Westminster in 1989 as a principal lecturer in law. Project Co-ordinator of the Enterprise in Higher Education initiative (part secondment 1991-4). Associate Head of School (1994-5). Head (now Dean) of School (1995).

Educational consultant to the Inns of Court School of Law (1988) and to the Law Society of England and Wales (2002). For the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales he has served on the Education and Training Committee, Continuing Professional Development Committee and Monitoring Committee. Education and training advisor to panels monitoring the Bar Vocational Courses (1997). Member of the Law Societys Training Framework Review Group (2004-2006).

Published numerous papers on lawyers, legal profession, legal education and professional ethics. Authored, with Prof. Jenny Levin (University of Wales, Swansea), the first academic text to offer an extended analysis of the ethics and conduct of the English legal professions (The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales). Has held research grants from the Lord Chancellors Advisory Committee on Education and Conduct, the Law Society, the Nuffield Foundation and the UK Centre for Legal Education. Served as Executive Committee member of the Socio-legal Studies Association. Member, ISA/RCSL Working Group on Legal Professions. Member, International Advisory Board of Legal Ethics. 

For more information on Professor Andy Boon please visit: http://westminster.academia.edu/AndrewBoon

Select/ recent publications

  • `Cause Lawyers in a Cold Climate: The Impact(s) of Globalisation on the United Kingdom (Eds. Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era (Oxford University Press: Oxford, New York, 2001) pp. 143-185 (ISBN 0-19-514116-4 and 0-19-514117-2 (pbk). 
  • Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession: The Position of Newly Qualified Solicitors (2001) 64:4 The Modern Law Review 563-594 (with Liz Duff and Michael Shiner)
  • Ethics in Legal Education and Training: Four Reports, Three Jurisdictions and a Prospectus (2002) Legal Ethics 34-67
  • Cause Lawyers and the Alternative Ethical Paradigm: Ideology and Transgression (2004) 7:2 Legal Ethics 250-268
  • Postmodern Professions?: The Fragmentation of Legal Education and the Legal Profession (2005) 32:3 Journal of Law and Society 473-492 (with J. Flood and J. Webb)
  • The Formalisation of Research Ethics  in R. Banakar and M. Travers (eds.) Theory and Method in Socio-legal Research (Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2005) pp. 301-326 (ISBN 13: 978-1-84113-625-7)
  • From public service to service industry: the impact of socialisation and work on the motivation and values of lawyers (2005) 12:2 International Journal of the Legal Profession 193-224
  • Special Advocacy: Political Expediency and Legal Roles in Modern Judicial Systems (2006) 9 Legal Ethics 101-124 (with S. Nash)
  • The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales (2008) (2nd Edition) Hart Publishing: Oxford (with Professor Jennifer Levin) (ISBN 978-1-84113-708-7) 446 pages