- Allbon, E. (2024). Legal Design: New Opportunities for the Legal Information Sector? Legal Information Management, 24(1), pp. 21–31. doi:10.1017/s1472669624000069.
- Breslin, J. and Breslin, M. (2024). Editorial. Legal Information Management, 24(1), pp. 1–2. doi:10.1017/s1472669624000021.
- Allbon, E. (2022). Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci et al (eds), Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(3), pp. 472–474. doi:10.3366/elr.2022.0799.
- Allbon, E. (2019). Changing mindsets: encouraging law teachers to think beyond text. Journal of Open Access to Law, 7(1).
- Allbon, E. (2018). Beyond text: exploiting the visual in law. Australian Law Librarian, 26(2), pp. 54–63.
- Eisenschitz, T. (2016). EMILY ALLBON and SANMEET KAUR DUA . The Insider's Guide to Legal Skills (2016) London; New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138828735. £19.99 (Paperback). Legal Information Management, 16(4), pp. 272–273. doi:10.1017/s1472669616000566.
- Allbon, E. (2016). Seeing is believing: we are all converging. The Law Teacher, 50(1), pp. 44–60. doi:10.1080/03069400.2016.1146455.
- Allbon, E. (2016). Connecting with clients - what tools work? Australian Law Librarian, 23(1), pp. 4–13.
- Allbon, E. (2015). Infiltrate and Conquer: Showing the World What Librarians Can Do. Legal Information Management, 15(4), pp. 218–224. doi:10.1017/s1472669615000560.
- Allbon, E. (2014). Georgina Wolfe and Alexander Robson,The Path to Pupillage. The Law Teacher, 48(2), pp. 223–225. doi:10.1080/03069400.2014.914743.
- Allbon, E. (2014). Web, social media and online communities for those studying for professions: Embraced or tolerated? Managing information online at the City Law School. eLmL - International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning pp. 37–43.
- Allbon, E. (2014). Book Review: The Path to Pupillage, 2013, Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd edn. The Law Teacher, 48(2), pp. 223–225.
- Allbon, E. (2013). Too cool for (law) school? Using technology to engage students in legal skills. European Journal of Law and Technology, 4(1).
- Allbon, E. and Dua, S.K. (2012). Legal Skills: Ensuring ‘Appy Students. Legal Information Management, 12(4), pp. 266–272. doi:10.1017/s1472669612000618.
- Allbon, E. (2012). Resource Review: UK Human Rights Blog. The Law Teacher, 46(1), pp. 88–90.
- Allbon, E. (2011). From Black and White to Colour; Educating and Engaging the Screen Addicts of 2011. Legal Information Management, 11, pp. 226–232. doi:10.1017/S147266961100079X.
- Allbon, E. (2009). Innovative involvement not embarrassing intervention: Using technology to connect with students without treading on virtual toes. Legal Information Management, 9(4), pp. 240–240.
- Allbon, E. and Wakefield, N. (2008). Staying vital to the virtual learner: what role for future academic law librarians? Legal Information Management, 8(1), pp. 18–18.
- Allbon, E. (2005). IT'S ALIVE! The birth of Lawbore and the Indispensability of the Law Librarian. Legal Information Management, 5(4), pp. 21–21.
- Allbon, E. and Williams, P. (2002). Nasties in the Net: children and censorship on the Web. New Library World, 103(1/2), pp. 30–38. doi:10.1108/03074800210415041.
Professor Emily Allbon
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About
Overview
Emily is Director of Legal Design at the City Law School.
She began her role at City as the Law Librarian in 2000, before joining The City Law School in 2014 as Lecturer. She is known for her work in developing the award-winning Lawbore resource – a website to support and engage those studying law, as well as for her work in the field of legal design. She was proud to launch TL;DR - the less textual legal gallery in late 2019 - which showcases ways of making law more accessible to all. A popular resource within TL;DR is Coltsfoot Vale; a virtual village for learning about land law principles.
Her work has been recognised in many ways, both by her previous profession (Wildy/BIALL Law Librarian of the Year 2012) and the academic law community (Best paper in Legal Education and Technology at BILETA 2012, Routledge/Association of Law Teachers (ALT) Teaching Law with Technology Prize 2013). In 2013 the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE) named her one of 55 National Teaching Fellows – the UK’s most prestigious awards for excellence in higher education teaching and support for learning. Emily is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
Emily’s academic background includes degrees in English Literature, Law, Information Science and Academic Practice. Her interests lie in legal education, legal research and legal information literacy, student engagement, legal design and visualisation, and the use of technology in teaching and learning. She runs regular design sprints for students and enjoys working with legal charities and advice agencies (such as Leducate, Liberty) to help them create more usable, accessible and understandable materials. One long-term project is #DesignTheLawNepal, which aims to create a space for all Nepali citizens to understand their sexual and reproductive health rights, by using accessible language and engaging explainers to mobilise the power of visual communication methods. Her most recent book is an edited collection, 'Design in Legal Education' (Routledge, 2022), co-edited with Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris from the University of Kent.
Employment
- Trustee, BAILII - The British and Irish Legal Information Institute, Oct 2019 – present
Memberships of professional organisations
- Clarity International
- SLSA - Socio-Legal Studies Association
- LERN - Legal Education Research Network
- CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- BAILII - British and Irish Association of Law Librarians
- SLS - The Society of Legal Scholars
- ALT - Association of Law Teachers
Teaching
Foundations of Land Law (LLB)
Studying Law and Employability (LLB)
Debates in the English Legal System (LLB)
English Legal System (GELLB)
Publications
Publications by category
Books (6)
- Allbon, E. and Kaur Dua, S. (2023). The Insider's Guide to Legal Skills. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-00-304186-3.
- Allbon, E. and Perry-Kessaris, A. (2022). Design in Legal Education. Routledge.
- Allbon, E. (2019). Legal Research: A Practitioner's Handbook. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85490-265-1.
- Allbon, E. and Kaur Dua, S. (2019). Elliott and Quinn's English Legal System 2019/20. Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-25105-9.
- Allbon, E. and Kaur Dua, S. (2018). Elliott and Quinn's English Legal System. Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-20851-0.
- Allbon, E. and Kaur Dua, S. (2016). The Insider's Guide to Legal Skills. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-73812-3.
Chapters (11)
- Passera, S., Allbon, E. and Haapio, H. (2022). Contract transformation: merging drafting and design to meet the needs of human readers. Research Handbook on Contract Design (pp. 92–112). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83910-227-1.
- Allbon, E. and Perry-Kessaris, A. (2022). What can design do for legal education? Design in Legal Education (pp. 1–14). Routledge.
- Allbon, E. and Warner, R. (2022). Taking our interactive co-design workshop online. Design in Legal Education Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-07579-8.
- Allbon, E. and Warner, R. (2022). Taking a co-design workshop online. Design in Legal Education (pp. 178–191). Routledge.
- Allbon, E. and Perry-Kessaris, A. (2022). Design in legal publishing. Design in Legal Education (pp. 229–237). Routledge.
- Allbon, E. and Morgan, R. (2021). Is law really that special? In Ducato, R. and Strowel, A. (Eds.), Legal Design Perspectives: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field Ledizioni. ISBN 978-88-552-6575-1.
- Allbon, E. (2020). Planning a Training Session. BIALL Handbook of Legal Information Management (pp. 283–301). Routledge.
- Allbon, E. (2016). Planning a training session. BIALL Handbook of Legal Information Management (pp. 283–302).
- Allbon, E. (2016). Working with the Library. In Ashford, C. and Guth, J. (Eds.), The Legal Academic's Handbook Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-43010-6.
- Allbon, E. (2016). Showcasing outside the library walls: growth through collaboration. In Mohando, L.F., Gottschalk, S., Schulz, M.R. and Tanja, G. (Eds.), Knowledge Management in Law Firms Expertise in Action Globe Law and Business. ISBN 978-1-911078-13-5.
- Allbon, E. (2014). Planning a training session. BIALL Handbook of Legal Information Management (pp. 283–302).
Conference papers and proceedings (5)
- Allbon, E. (2014). Web, Social Media and Online Communities for those Studying for Professions: Embraced or Tolerated? eLmL 2014 : The Sixth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning 23-27 March, Barcelona, Spain.
- Allbon, E. (2012). Too cool for (law) school? Using technology to engage students in legal skills. BILETA 2012 29-30 March, Northumbria University Law School, Newcastle, UK.
- Allbon, E. (2012). The free legal info landscape. Justice Wide Open 29 February, City University London, London, UK.
- Allbon, E. (2011). Stimulating student learning when visual is king. LILAC 2011 18-20 April, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK.
- Kaur, S. and Allbon, E. (2011). Tuning in not zoning out: teaching students legal skills via a multimedia learning hub. Learning in Law Annual Conference 2011: Experiencing legal education 28-29 January, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Journal articles (20)
Professional activities
Editorial activity
- The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education, Editorial board member.
Events/conferences (28)
- Connecting Legal Education (CLEFest). (Conference) University of Leeds (2024). Invited speaker.
Paper: Power of legal design (for legal education)
Author: Allbon, E. - Symposium on making law more accessible for younger audiences. (Seminar) University of Warwick (2023). Invited speaker.
Paper: Demystifying law for (older) young people
Author: Allbon, E. - CLEO Annual Conference Post-Pandemic: new frontiers in teaching and research in clinical legal education. (Conference) University of Derby (2023). Invited speaker.
Paper: How could you use design in a legal clinic setting?
Author: Allbon, E. - SLSA Annual Conference. (Conference) University of Derry (2023).
Paper: Reproductive rights as socio-economic rights in Nepal: using legal design to improve access to justice
Author: Germain, S.
Co-authors: Allbon, E. & Malagodi, M. - International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication. (Conference) Thessaloniki, Greece (2022).
Paper: Freeing Liberty through Information Design
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Warner, R - SLSA Conference 2021. (Conference) Virtual, hosted by Cardiff University, Wales, UK (2021). Invited speaker.
Paper: Making legal education more inclusive by design
Author: Allbon, E - Legal Design Roundtable 2020. (Conference) Online, hosted by UCLouvain, Belgium (2020).
Paper: Is Law that special?
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Morgan, R - CLEO Conference: Games, Stories and Simulations. (Conference) London South Bank University, UK (2019). Organising Committee. Invited speaker.
Paper: TLDR and Coltsfoot Vale
Author: Allbon, E - ALT Conference 2019. (Conference) De Montfort University, UK (2019).
Paper: From contract visualisation to legal design: the first 20 years
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Haapio, H - Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education Conference, UK. (Conference) Nottingham, UK (2017).
Paper: Lagton Legal: creating a transmedia storyworld for the LLB in Legal Practice
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Pamplin, M - BILETA: British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association. (Conference) Braga, Portugal (2017).
Paper: Keeping it real: Transmedia for online legal education
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Pamplin, M - ALT Conference. (Conference) Portsmouth, UK (2017).
Paper: Developing a transmedia resource for online legal education
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Pamplin, M - All-day legislation workshop for the Welsh Assembly. (Workshop) Cardiff, UK (2016). Invited speaker.
Paper: Legal Research Masterclass in Legislation
Author: Allbon, E. - Society of Legal Scholars Conference. (Conference) Oxford, UK (2016).
Paper: Seeing is believing: We are all converging
Author: Allbon, E - Learning at City Conference. (Conference) London, UK (2016).
Paper: Murder, Diamonds and Walking: Using walks in your teaching practice through an exploration of Hatton Garden
Author: Allbon, E
Co-authors: Bullimore, A.; Benata, R. - Infiltrate and conquer: Showing the World what Librarians can do. Brighton, UK (2015).
Description: Plenary session at the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Annual Conference - Web, Social Media and Online Communities for those studying for the Professions: Embraced or Tolerated? Barcelona, Spain (2014).
Description: eLmL: The Sixth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid and Online Learning - Teaching Research Skills at City. London, UK (2014).
Description: Teaching Research Skills to Law Students – Best Practice (HEA Workshop), IALS - Engaging Legal Minds: Providing the digital tools students need. Plymouth, UK (2013).
Description: Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCON) - Law Libraries and Law Students: Motivating Broader Learning and an interest in practical legal skills. Oslo, Norway (2013).
Description: Law Libraries and Law Students Symposium, University of Oslo - Engaging and Educating the Screen Addicts of 2012. Boston, USA (2012).
Description: American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference - Too Cool for (Law) School? Using Technology to Engage Students in Legal Skills. Northumbria University, UK (2012).
Description: British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA), winner best paper in Legal Education stream - Lawbore rocks! LILAC (Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference) (2009).
- Innovative involvement not embarrassing intervention: Using technology to connect with students without treading on virtual toes. BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) Annual Conference (2009).
- Getting down with the kids; satisfying the 'google generation' without compromising quality for cool (both possible!). Internet Librarian International (2008).
- Debunking the myth: Lawbore, Indispensibility and becoming the vanguard of change. AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Annual Meeting and Conference (2006).
- Developing the student learning environment at City University. UKCLE Seminar on teaching and learning for legal skills trainers (2005).
- Developing the legal portal of City University to support learners. ASSIGN Conference (2004).
Keynote lectures/speeches (3)
- One for sorrow, two for joy: why legal education needs design. Kings College, London, UK (2022). SLS Conference 2022
- Futures of Legal Education and Practice conference
Making legal education and practice meaningful by design. Open University, UK (2018). Joint keynote with Amanda Perry-Kessaris (University of Kent) - Connecting with Clients - What Tools Work? Adelaide, Australia (2014). Australian Law Librarians Association Annual Conference