Welcome

Welcome (Fáilte!) to the Legal Education Matters blog/webpage, where I, Verona Ní Drisceoil, share my thoughts, reflections, and provocations on legal education matters. In the future, I will also share some resources on teaching and how to connect in the classroom and beyond. In naming this blog, I took inspiration from two brilliant teaching and learning blogs: Learning Matters and Teaching Matters. Check them out!

To start, a bit about me. I’m a Reader (Assoc Prof.) in Legal Education at the University of Sussex (Brighton). I’m on an Education & Scholarship track, having moved over from an Education & Research track in 2019. Since 2017, I have been involved in leading or co-leading on various education related work/projects in my department including pre-university outreach, transition, legal skills embedding, feedback, the pivot online in 2020 and most recently how to respond to the significant advances in generative AI.

Beyond Sussex Law School, I am a Judge for the OUP Law Teacher of the Year Award and co-convene the Connecting Legal Education Network, with Professor Lydia Bleasdale, Professor Michael Doherty and Dr Arwen Joyce. Like me, they are incredibly passionate about all things legal education, so it is a joy to work with them.

I hope you enjoy reading my posts and find any resources I share here useful. Feel free to connect if you would like to brainstorm anything legal education related or to ask for advice. Always happy to help if I can. Contact

I’m currently working on projects on authenticity in legal assessment, generative AI and assessment and community and belonging. Other wider interests include voice work & oracy skills, inequality in legal education, feedback, universal design for learning and evaluative judgement.