The Principal Investigator of the Project is Prof. Zenon Bankowski (Law, Edinburgh).

The Key Collaborators are (in alphabetical order):

• Keren Ben-Dor (Dance movement therapist)
• Maksymilian Del Mar (Law, Edinburgh; Social Sciences, Lausanne)
• Zoe Fothergill (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh)
• Dr. Randy Gordon (Partner, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP)
• Prof. Paul Maharg (Law, Strathclyde),
• Robert McKillop (film-maker), and
• Alicja Rogalska (Freelance artist, Birmingham)

The Steering Committee consists of (in alphabetical order):

• Prof. Zenon Bankowski (Law, Edinburgh)
• Maksymilian Del Mar (Law, Edinburgh) and
• Zoe Fothergill (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh)

Participants in the practice-based and reflection workshops so far are (in alphabetical order):

• Prof. Fiona Cownie (Law, Keele)
• Prof. Anthony Bradney (Law, Keele)
• Valerie Fitch (Director of Professional Development at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP)
• Prof. Alan Lerner (Law, Pennsylvania)
• Prof. Tom Mayo (Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Southern Methodist University)
• Jim Moser (Director of Learning and Development, Dundas & Wilson)
• Prof. Nancy Rapoport (Law, Nevada), and
• Elaine Tyre (Assistant Director of the Legal Practice Unit, Law, Edinburgh)
• Elaine Webster (Law, Strathclyde)
• Aidan O'Neill QC (Bar, Scotland)

Participants in the theoretical and reflection workshops so far are (in alphabetical order):

• Dr. Daniel Augenstein (Law, Edinburgh)
• Prof. Andy Clark (Philosophy, Edinburgh)
• Dr. Sylvie Delacroix (Law, University College London)
• Prof. Harvie Ferguson (Sociology, Glasgow)
  
• Dr. Sotiria Grek (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh)
• Prof. John Haldane (Philosophy, St Andrews)
• Julian Henriques (Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, London)
  
• Panagia Hernandez (Law, Edinburgh)
• Dr. Sophia Lycouris (Edinburgh College of Art), and
• Dr. Claudio Michelon (Law, Edinburgh)
• Dr Anne Pirrie (University of the West of Scotland)
• Burkhard Schafer (Law, Edinburgh)
  

Zenon Bankowski is Professor of Legal Theory at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

Keren Ben-Dor is a Lecturer in Dance in Education and a dance-movement therapist.

Maksymilian Del Mar is a researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Lausanne. He completed his doctorate at the School of Law, Edinburgh, in 2009. He has previously been involved in legal education reform (as Founding President of the Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association) and legal professional ethics education and regulation (as Founding Director of the Legal Professional Ethics Project at the Queensland Law Society). He is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.

Zoë Fothergill is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art has experience of the education and gallery sector in a variety of formal and informal learning environments. Since April 2005 when she joined the Talbot Rice team she has taken the award winning education programme from strength to strength. In post she has brought a meaningful questioning of the boundaries of gallery based education and a search for innovation. In the last year, a particular line of enquiry has explored the potential of non-language based cross-artform collaboration as a mechanism for interpretation and exchange. In addition, Zoë plays a strategic role in the gallery, shaping future development with an integrated approach to artistic programming, public engagement and organisational structures. Of mutual benefit, Zoë maintains an artistic practice in tandem with her role in the gallery bringing a further level of insight and experience.

Randy Gordon is a partner in the Antitrust Group at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP (profile here), where he has also served as the Firm’s first Professional Development Partner. He is a past Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, an Adjunct Professor of Law and Lecturer in English at Southern Methodist University, a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hiett Prize, the largest humanities-specific prize in the U.S. His professional activities include service as Immediate Past-Chair of the State Bar of Texas Antitrust & Business Litigation Section, a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Legal Education Section of the ABA, a member and former board member of the Professional Development Consortium, and an elected member of both the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet and the American Law Institute. Randy is also an Advisory Board Member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. A frequent lecturer and writer, he is the Senior Host of “The Writer’s Studio,” a series of interviews with contemporary authors (e.g., Alice Walker, Umberto Eco, Scott Turow, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Ernest Gaines, and Joseph Wambaugh) broadcast throughout the country by KERA/National Public Radio.

Paul Maharg is a Professor of Law in the Glasgow Graduate School (GGSL), University of Strathclyde. He is Co-Director of Legal Practice Courses, and Director of the innovative Learning Technologies Development Unit at the GGSL. He is the author of Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-first Century (2007, Ashgate Publishing, 354pp, www.transforming.org.uk), and has published widely in the fields of legal education and professional learning design (http://ssrn.com/author=272987). His specialisms include interdisciplinary educational design, and the use of ICT at all levels of legal education. He consults with law firms and other legal service employers. He blogs at http://zeugma.typepad.com

Tom Mayo is Director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at Southern Methodist University; Associate Professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas B Southwestern Medical School; and Of Counsel, Haynes and Boone, all in Dallas. He teaches courses in nonprofit organizations, health care law, and bioethics and law, as well as a literature course for fourth-year medical students and third-year law students (titled, unsurprisingly, “Law, Literature & Medicine”). He is a co-founder of the Dallas Legal Hospice, Texas’ first pro bono legal clinic for persons with HIV disease and persons with terminal illnesses. He is Fellow in the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture; a member of the Advisory Committee of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center; the editor of the Medical Humanities Series of the SMU Press; and the regular poetry columnist for the Dallas Morning News. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Amherst College and his J.D. from Syracuse University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Syracuse Law Review.

Nancy B. Rapoport is the Gordon & Silver, Ltd. Professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991. She started her academic career at The Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor in 1998 (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. She then served as Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center from July 2000-May 2006 and as Professor of Law from June 2006-June 2007, when she left to join the faculty at Boyd. She is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the United States Supreme Court. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture.

Fiona Cownie read English at Bristol University, and worked as a teacher for three years before reading Law at the University of Leicester, graduating with First Class Honours. After taking an LL.M at the London School of Economics, she read for the Bar and was called to Lincoln's Inn in 1985. From 1987 to 2003 she worked at the University of Leicester, before being appointed as the H.K Bevan Chair of Law in the University of Hull in September 2003. In September 2006 she took up a Chair at Keele University, and since August 2007 has been Postgraduate Research Director in the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice at Keele. Fiona Cownie is Vice President of the Society of Legal Scholars and Convenor of the Legal Education Research Group of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law. In 2007 she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Judicial Studies Board which is responsible for training the judiciary of England and Wales. Fiona Cownie's main research interest is legal education. Her qualitative study of the culture of academic law was published in 2004 by Hart Publishing as Legal academics: culture and identities and she is currently developing aspects of this work in order to further explore the professional identities of academic lawyers. Fiona Cownie is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Legal Education and Legal Education Editor of the Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.

Anthony Bradney is Professor of Law at Keele University. He was previously Professor of Law at the universities of Leicester and Sheffield. His research has mainly been into the relationship between religions and law where his publications include Religions, Rights and Laws (Leicester University Press) (1993), theories of legal pluralism, where his publications include Living Without Law: An Ethnography of Dispute Avoidance and Resolution in the Religious Society of Friends (with Fiona Cownie) (Ashgate) (2000), and the nature of university legal education, where his publications include Conversations, Chances and Choices: The Liberal Law School in the Twenty-First Century (Hart Publishing) (2003). In addition to this over the last five years he has, amongst other things, published a series of articles and essays on images of law and legal institutions in the television programmes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. He is also a co-author of two textbooks, How to Study Law (Sweet and Maxwell), which is currently in its 5th edition, and The English Legal System in Context; (Oxford University Press), which is currently in its 4th edition. He is editor of the Web Journal of Current Legal Issues and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Law and Society. Amongst other external appointments he has been Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars since 1997. He was Special Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences between 2002 and 2003. His monograph Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age (Routledge/Cavendish) is to be published in January 2009.

Jim Moser spent 20 years as a commercial lawyer. This was interspersed at all stages with various teaching and learning roles. These included: time as a tutor inn the Diploma in Legal Practice at Glasgow University and Director of Andersen's European Real Estate School. When not in practice he has worked as a TEFL teacher in Europe and studied and worked in Europe. He is now in charge of all learning and development at Dundas & Wilson, a UK law firm.

Alan M. Lerner is Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Lerner has been a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty since 1993. He is the Director of the Law School’s Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic, and is the Law School’s Faculty Co-Director of the University’s Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research. In 2007, Professor Lerner was named a “Bellow Scholar” by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest, for his research project, “Identifying the Red Flags of Child Neglect to Facilitate Evidence-Based, Focused Responses.” He has made numerous presentations throughout the United States, and abroad, to professional organizations concerned with equal justice, child welfare, and clinical teaching theory and practice. Professor Lerner’s scholarly publications include: TEACHING LAW AND EDUCATING LAWYERS: Closing the Gap Through Multidisciplinary Experiential Education, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (Winter, 2006, 96-133); USING OUR BRAINS: What Cognitive Science and Social Psychology Teach Us About Teaching Law Students to Make Ethical, Professionally Responsible, Choices, 23 Quinnipiac Law Review, 643 (2004); and LAW & LAWYERING IN THE WORKPLACE: Building Better Lawyers By Teaching Students to Exercise Critical Judgment as Creative Problem Solvers, 32 Akron L. Rev. 107 (1999). Before joining the faculty, Professor Lerner practiced law for 25 years concentrating his practice in labor and employment law, with a particular focus on problems of workplace discrimination and harassment. He also chaired his firm’s Labor and Employment Law Department, and Ethics Committee. He was twice named as one of “The Best Lawyers in America.”

Elaine Tyre is Assistant Director of the Legal Practice Unit at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Her areas of expertise lie in financial planning, trusts, wills, taxation, and continuing legal education. Elaine qualified as a solicitor and notary public in 1981. She qualified as a financial advice planner in 1998. Elaine teaches on the Private Client, FSRS, Ethics and Practice Management courses on the Diploma in Legal Practice.

Elaine Webster studied Law and French Language (LLB Hons) at the University of Glasgow, International Politics (MA) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Human Rights and Democratisation (MA) at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights, Venice, Italy/Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She is currently in the final stages of a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, on the interpretation and scope of application of the right not to be subjected to degrading treatment in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Elaine joined the Law School at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, as Public Law Lecturer in January 2008. She teaches Public Law of the UK and Scotland at Undergraduate level and Human Rights in the UK at postgraduate level. As part of her appointment, she is currently undertaking postgraduate courses in Advanced Academic Studies.

Originally from Dundee, Robert McKillop studied in Edinburgh at Napier University where he Directed three short films, winning the Scottish Students on Screen "No Boundaries" award 2003, and shortlisted for the Jim Poole Scottish Short Film Award 2005. After graduating he worked on projects ranging from documentary and advertising to video art. In 2006 Robert began a Scottish Arts Council residency at Stepping Stones, a Mental Health Arts Centre. This resulted in 13 films including SOMETHING CHANGED (30mins), and FAULT LINES (50mins), which won Best Drama at the Scottish Mental Health Film Festival 2007. From September 2008 Robert will be based in London where he is studying MA Directing Fiction at the prestigous National Film an Television School.

Aidan O'Neill was called to the Bar in 1987, and took Silk in 1999 (Scotland). He is qualified to appear as counsel in Scotland, as well as in the courts of England and Wales. Based in Edinburgh, he practises in both jurisdictions, and has a civil/commercial practice involving a significant element of advice and court appearances on issues of European law, particularly in the fields of human rights, private international law, commercial contract, and employment and discrimination law. He has appeared as leading (senior) counsel before the European Court of Justice, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the House of Lords, the High Court (Administrative Division), and the civil and criminal courts of Scotland.

Julian Webb is Professor of Legal Education at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Higher Education Academy’s UK Centre for Legal Education. He has been published widely on issues of legal education policy and pedagogy, and on the legal profession and its ethics. He is joint editor of the Routledge-Cavendish Law, Science and Society book series, and, until 2008 was a founding editor of the journal Legal Ethics. Julian is also course director of Warwick Law School’s LLM in Legal Education, and over the years has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on English and comparative legal systems, dispute resolution, public law, legal ethics, legal skills, and philosophy of law.

Gillian Calder joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria in 2004 as an Assistant Professor from the practice of aboriginal law in Vancouver. Prior to that time she taught at the University of New Brunswick (2001-2002) and was a clerk to the B.C. Supreme Court (1997-1998). Her current research interests include the relationship between women, work and family; the provision of social benefits through Canadian law; feminist, constitutional and equality theories and performance and law. This research project flows from work that Gillian has undertaken at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law over the past two years. Through a series of workshops with student groups and using some of these theatrical techniques in the classroom, Gillian has used her training in Theatre of the Oppressed to address issues of silence, voice, marginalization, discrimination and hope for students and practitioners working in the law.

Tor Clark joined Steps as a freelance associate in October 2005. She received a degree in Acting from Rose Bruford College in 1997, and has since worked in film, theatre, television and Radio. She has worked as an actor facilitator for programmes such as Changing Mindsets, Having difficult Conversations and Performance Management Training, to name a few.

Anthony Psaila has worked as a facilitator for almost ten years and became an actor / facilitator for Steps in 2005. He has facilitated a wide range of programmes including Diversity Awareness, Change Management, and Impact and Communication. As a professional actor, Anthony received a BA in Performance studies from City University, where he now Tutors on the same course, and an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths University, where he now tutors in voiceover workshops.

Anne Pirrie is Reader in Education. Prior to joining the University of the West of Scotland in June 2007, she was a researcher at The SCRE Centre at the University of Glasgow, where she directed an evaluation of the impact of Section 15 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools, etc, Act 2000, funded by the Scottish Executive. She has recently completed an investigation into what happens to young people who have been permanently excluded from Pupil Referral Units (PRUS) and special schools in England. This study was funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), and undertaken with colleagues at the Universities of Edinburgh and Warwick. The Final Report will be published on the DCSF website in the autumn of 2009. Anne is a migrant from the humanities to the social sciences. She completed her PhD on the Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) at the University of Edinburgh. Roth’s attention to detail, his ability to draw the general from the particular and his extraordinary capacity to make the familiar seem strange have been influential in her subsequent career development. She taught German and French in Edinburgh secondary schools before moving to Italy, where she worked freelance as a translator and editor. She joined the staff at The Scottish Council for Research in Education (now The SCRE Centre) in 1987, and has held research fellowships at the Universities of Stirling and Edinburgh.