Mr Julian Webb
Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University

Julian Webb joined Melbourne Law School in 2014 from the University of Warwick in the UK. He holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, and has previously held visiting appointments at University College, London, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the USA. He is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law’s Legal Industry Framework for Training and Education (LIFTED) global faculty, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an academic Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, one of the four ancient Inns of Court that govern the English Bar.

Julian’s research focuses on the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers; developments in the market for legal services; law and technology, and legal education policy and practice. He has published widely across these fields, including Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations (Oxford UP, 2000, with Donald Nicolson), Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process (Cambridge UP, 2005, with Caroline Maughan) and the edited collection, Leading Works in Legal Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming). In 2016, he was identified in a study by the International Bar Association as one the world’s fifteen most cross-cited scholars on innovation and disruption in legal services.