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Mrs Keren Bright

Law Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in Law

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Biography

Keren Bright is Director of the Law Programme (undergraduate) and a Senior Lecturer in the Law School.

Keren was educated at the University of Bristol and the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, where she read for a Masters degree. Professional qualifications were obtained from the Universities of Oxford, Oxford Brookes and Cambridge. Keren qualified as a solicitor in 1998 in a practice specialising in media law and undertook contentious and non-contentious work in the defamation, employment, company and commercial fields of practice.

Keren has taught Business Law at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice where she was Principal Lecturer; a member of the senior management team; and course leader for Intellectual Property, Private Acquisitions and Business Accounts. During her time there, Keren enjoyed a sabbatical with the clinical law programme at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and a placement in the intellectual property department of Linklaters, a leading global law firm.

Keren had a consultancy for five years with the UK Centre for Legal Education (“UKCLE”). UKCLE was the law subject centre of the Higher Education Academy, which was based at the University of Warwick. The consultancy involved the professional development of law lecturers in universities across the UK and also writing resources for law lecturers for the UKCLE website.

Keren is currently a member of the UK executive committee of The Commonwealth Legal Education Association and Editor of its Newsletter, which is distributed to Law Schools across the Commonwealth. Keren is also External Adviser for the Law School of the University of the West of England.

Research interests

I am primarily interested in intellectual property and legal education, with a particular focus upon course design and teaching and learning issues. I am currently researching in the fields of intellectual property, human rights and corporate social responsibility.

External contributions

Keren Bright is currently a member of the UK executive committee of The Commonwealth Legal Education Association and Editor of its Newsletter, which is distributed to Law Schools across the Commonwealth.

Keren is also External Adviser for the Law School of the University of the West of England.

Areas of expertise

  • legal education

Publications

Journal papers
Bright, KE  (2007)  'Providing individual written feedback on formative and summative assessments', Directions, UK Centre for Legal Education, issue March, pp. 10/11/10.
Conference papers
Bright, KE  (2009)  'Online tutorials - teaching Intellectual Property in an online environment', European Intellectual Property Teachers' Network annual workshop, The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, July.
Bright, KE  (2005)  'The advantages and disadvantages in collaborating with law firms in the design of vocational law courses', Learning in Law Annual Conference, University of Warwick, January.
Bright, KE  (2005)  'Advantages and disadvantages in collaborating with law firms in the design of vocational law courses', UKCLE.
Bright, KE  (2003)  'Developing trainee solicitors in Australia', Legal Practice Course Conference, BPP Law School, London, June.
Bright, KE  (2001)  'Designing vocational intellectual property courses', European Intellectual Property Teachers' Network annual workshop, University of Warwick, June.
Other
Bright, KE  (2007)  'Providing individual written feedback on formative and summative assessments', UK Centre for Legal Education.