Lisa Webley

Lisa Webley is a legal scholar, academic, and author who is serving as the Chair of Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in University of London. She is a visiting professor at the University of Portsmouth (UoP), Leeds Beckett University (LBU), and Victoria University Australia (VU).

Webley's research focuses on various aspects of the legal profession, including regulation, education, ethics, and professionalism, as well as broader concerns such as access to justice and the rule of law. She has led research projects and conducted funded empirical research for public bodies and organizations, including the European Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the Department for Trade and Industry. Her publications include ''Adversarialism and Consensus? The Professions' Construction of Solicitor and Family Mediator Identity and Role'', ''Complete Public Law: Text, Cases and Materials'', and ''Legal Writing'' with various peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has supervised students who are engaged in empirical socio-legal research, and her contributions earned her the Law Teacher of the Year award from Oxford University Press.

Webley is a member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law and has served as the General Editor of ''Legal Ethics''. Provided by Wikipedia