Recently, public attention has been drawn to the disproportionately high rates of withdrawal from university courses of black students (e.g. Iyabo-Osho 2017 and Grove 2017). I am confident that disclosure of these statistics will see university Equalities Committees and Academic Boards flooded with policies designed to address perceived social and educational disadvantages of black students. I am equally confident that any attempt to explore whether black students are withdr

Accounts of how the law is deeply implicated in the establishment and maintenance of positions of dominance in society have a visible (albeit still marginal) place on most university humanities and social sciences programmes. Although by no means at the forefront of these intellectual provocations and strategic interventions, Law School critiques of law (often inspired by critical and intersectional accounts of racialized and gendered societal structures and norms) have a dis

A student enrolled on a university law degree programme today can expect to receive much more than the lectures, seminars and workshop sessions necessary to support his/her learning of compulsory subjects of which approximately two-thirds of a qualifying law degree programme is comprised. It is hard to find a law programme which does not offer to students a simulated experience of the court room through internal mooting training sessions and external mooting competitions. Man