Duff, Liz
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Responsibilities
- Head of Department
- Member of the Senior Management Team for the Law School
- Member of National Student Survey steering group
- Member of University Student Forum
Teaching
- LLB Contract
- LLB Legal Skills & Process 2
- Research Methods
Research Interests
- Access to the Legal Profession
- Women in the Legal Profession
Biography
Liz Duff LLB Hons (Business Law) MSc (City) LSF Cert Ed Head of the Department of Academic Legal Studies. Liz was on secondment to the Vice Chancellors Student Experience Project from 2006-8 and was the Senior Project Director liaising with all branches of the University to assist in the Vice Chancellors strategic development.
Liz has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the School of Law, principally contracts and torts, legal skills, the English legal system and research methods. She is currently teaching Legal Skills and Process 2 and is a dissertation and projects in law supervisor. She is also involved in academic management, teaching, learning and assessment policy in the Law School, as well curriculum design and quality assurance. She has been a consultant to the UKCLE on matters of LLB curriculum and widening participation. She has also advised a number of universities on this area. Liz was also one of the founders of the Law & Diversity programme at the University of Westminster School of Law.
Liz has carried out funded empirical research for a number of organisations including the Law Society of England and Wales. She also undertakes consultancy work. Liz has given or contributed to a number of conference papers including at the Law & Society Association/Canadian Law and Society Association; Socio-Legal Studies Association and the International Legal Ethics Conference. Details of some of her publications are set out below.
Recent Publications
Books & Reports
- Duff, L. & Webley, L. Equality and Diversity: Women Solicitors Research Study 48 Volume II Law Society Research Study Series (London: The Law Society, 2004) pp. 64 ISBN 185328-972-8.
- Duff, L. & Webley, L. Women Solicitors: Equality and Diversity, Report to the Law Society of England and Wales, 2003.
- Duff, E (Liz), Shiner, M., Boon, A. & Whyte, A. Entry Into the Legal Professions: Law Student Cohort Study Law Society Research Study No. 39 (London: The Law Society, 2000)
- Duff, E, Shiner, M., Boon, A. & Whyte, A. Interim Report to the Law Society of England and Wales on the Cohort Study, 1999.
- Duff, E, Shiner, M., Boon, A. & Whyte, A. Interim Report to the Law Society of England and Wales on the Cohort Study, 1998.
Articles
- Webley, L. & Duff, L. Women Solicitors as a Barometer for Problems within the Legal Profession Time to Put Values Before Profits? (2007) Vol. 34 No. 3 Journal of Law & Society 374-402 ISSN 0263-323X
- Boon, A., Duff, L. & Shiner, M. Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession: The Position of Newly Qualified Solicitors (2001) 64:4 The Modern Law Review 563-594 ISSN: 0026-796I
- Gardiner, S. & Duff, L. Computer crime in the global village: strategies for control and regulation - in defence of the hacker. (1996) 24 (2) International Journal of the Sociology of Law 211-228.
- Duff, L. & Gardiner, S. How to devise an introduction to law course and (not) alienate your colleagues. (1993) 27 (3) Law Teacher 244-258
Research Grants
- What Makes A Successful Law Student? With Lisa Webley September 2003- August 2004. Funder: Centre for Research into Education, University of Westminster.
- Women Solicitors, Diversity and Equality. With Lisa Webley. May -September 2003. Funder: Law Society of England and Wales.
- Entry into the Legal Professions: Law Student Cohort Study Year 6 With Mike Shiner, Andy Boon and Avis Whyte 1998-2000. Funder: The Law Society of England and Wales.
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