School of Law
Ms Claire Sparrow
Principal Lecturer and Undergraduate Programmes Director
School of Law
Portsmouth Business School
Richmond Building
Portland Street
Portsmouth
PO1 3DE
Profile
Course Director of undergraduate Law Programmes.
Unit co-ordinator of Contract Law and Law of Evidence units.
Claire has experience of private practice as a barrister and currently a door tenant at Pallant Chambers, Chichester. She is interested in developing opportunities for students to learn from practical experience, such as advising in the Citizens Advice Bureau and also in the scholarship of teaching.
Claire is a contributor to the Bar Vocational Course Manual on Professional Conduct (published annually by Oxford University Press).
Conference Papers
July 2008 'University of Portsmouth CAB Programme - the reflective student practitioner. Integrating Clinical Legal Education into the Curriculum'. Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO) Conference, Cork 2008.
Qualifications and memberships
2004 Society of Legal Scholars - Member
2003 Higher Education Academy - Fellow
2002 Open University - PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
2000 Inns Advocacy Training Committee - Accredited Advocacy Trainer
1997 Middle Temple - called to the Bar
1997 Inns of Court School of Law - Bar Vocational Course
1996 Anglia Ruskin University - Common Professional Examination
1994 University of St Andrews - MA (Hons) English Language and Literature