Honorary and Visiting Professor, Independent Legal Education and Access to Justice Consultant

Richard Grimes qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and worked initially in a law centre and later as a full-equity partner for a provincial law firm, handling, principally, publicly funded cases. He has since worked in a number of universities in the UK and overseas and for the last 25 years has devoted his time to developing experiential means of learning about law and the legal system, that focus on the application of theory to practice, in both civil and common law jurisdictions. He is now a Visiting Professor at Charles University, Prague, Czechia, Professor of Legal Education at New Vision University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Honorary Professor at Dundee University, Scotland. He is also an independent legal education and access to justice consultant having worked for international development and donor agencies, national governments, regulatory bodies, NGOs and higher education institutions.

Richard looks forward to working with colleagues in advancing the scope and quality of student learning and developing further impactful research interests in a multidisciplinary context.

His recent publications include:

Re-thinking legal education under the civil and common law; a road map for constructive change, (edited), Routledge, 2018

Public legal education: the role of law schools in building a more legally literate society, Routledge, 2021

Teaching migration law: theory and practice (edited with V. Honusova and U. Stege), Routledge, 2022

How to set up and run legal clinics: principles and practice (with D. Nicolson and J. Newman), Edward Elgar, 2023

Teaching and learning climate and environmental justice in law schools: global perspectives on transforming the curriculum (edited with S. Levett, R. Samaras and R. Williams), Routledge, forthcoming 2025