Mr Andy Unger

My main academic and professional interests relate to legal education, law & technology, access to justice and international human rights strategy.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have a lifelong interest in legal education, particularly in Clinical and experiential legal education. I have led the development of our LLB and LLM courses, including the establishment of our Legal Advice Clinic and our responses to the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
I have recently developed an interest in the impact of technology on access to justice, legal services and careers in law and have begun teaching a collaborative and practical Law & Technology course in collaboration with the Computer Sciences Division at LSBU.
For over 20 years I have worked on human rights and access to justice training and assistance projects. I was a founder member of the UK section of the European Law Students Association and from 1989 onward took part in the 'Book Bus' project taking law books and training to young lawyers in former communist countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I then joined the International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society in 1994, where I worked for six years on issues such as the harassment of lawyers in Kenya and the operation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Since then, I have worked on human rights training projects in Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia for the British East-West Centre (a democracy and good government NGO). I am a former president of the South London Law Society and took part in our twinning project with the Law Association of Zambia, where I helped to establish access to justice stakeholder roundtable to support access to justice, particularly in rural areas. All of these experiences have fed into the courses I teach on International Human Rights Law & Strategy and on Comparative Law.
Before coming to LSBU, I was a High Street Legal Aid Solicitor. I am a former chair of the Trainee Solicitors Group and the Young Solicitors Group (now combined as the Junior Lawyers Division) of the Law Society of England & Wales.

Head of the Law Division, School of Law & Social Sciences

Law & Technology Comparative Law International Human Rights Law in Action (Negligence case simulation)