1. Creating Student Identities Through Co-Curricular Activities
Marcus Keppel-Palmer

2. Tommy Robinson
Last week, EDL leader Tommy Robinson was arrested and jailed outside Leeds Crown Court for contempt
He was reporting on a trial about a number of men charged with sex crimes
Twitter was awash with people pontificating about law/lawyering/journalism

4. Students come into the first year with a media fuelled view as to what a lawyer (solicitor/barrister) or journalist is
But they find that their university experience does not match their initial concept
Nor do they associate the concept with themselves viewing a lawyer or journalist as an “other”.

5. Visualisation exercise
We asked:
Please use the paper supplied to draw your idea of what a lawyer looks like.
Make your picture as detailed as possible – include your ideas about clothing, objects or other things you associate with lawyers if you wish
You can add words to describe aspects of your lawyer’s appearance , characteristics or attributes – use speech bubbles if you want your lawyer to speak for example

6. Lawyer Visualisations – overwhelmingly male, white, confident
Law student profile:
67% women 33% men;
77% white 23% BME

7. What a law degree is Finding doctrine – researching the law
Identifying doctrine – reading the law
Understanding doctrine – exploring the law and problem solving using the law
Critiquing doctrine
Developing lawyering skills
Developing professional identity

8. Professional Identity
“Professional Identity is the more than simply ethics and professionalism, .. (it) is the way a lawyer understands his or her role relative to all of the stakeholders in the legal system, including clients, courts, opposing parties and counsel, the firm and the legal system or society as a whole” (Katz, 2013)
In order to develop professional identity, students need opportunities to experience the complex interlay of professional behaviours, skills, ethics, and the relationship Katz sets out, whilst using their doctrinal knowledge

9. Experiential opportunities
In-class problem solving doesn’t inculcate professional behaviours
Co-curricular activity – pro bono; skills competitions; simulations
Pro bono

10. Pro Bono activities
Business Advice Clinic; BMAS; Community Asset Transfers; Private Client Initiative; Anti- Death Penalty Group; Mentoring; Street Law; Family Law Clinic; Law Court Clinic; African Prisons Project; Team Entrepreneurship Law

11. Challenges Cost – supervisor time/bundles Expertise of staff
Timetable /time
Academic year

12. Other core skills around graduate identity?
Future Skills identified by EY