Rachel Stalker
School of Law
Faculty of Business and Law
Email: R.Stalker@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 3163
Rachel read Jurisprudence at Christ Church, Oxford, and obtained her LPC at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. She completed her training contract at Linklaters, including six months working pro bono for human rights charity Liberty. Rachel qualified as a Solicitor in 2005 and spent seven years as a litigator in private practice in Liverpool and Manchester, before joining Liverpool John Moores University's School of Law as a Senior Lecturer in February 2013.
Rachel teaches Civil Litigation, Interviewing & Advising and Advanced PI on the LPC, and Contract on the LLM in Qualifying Law. She also coordinates the School’s pro bono activities, establishing the School of Law's award-winning Legal Advice Centre in April 2014.
Languages
Spanish; Castilian
French
Portuguese
Degrees
2017, LJMU, United Kingdom, LLM in Legal Practice
2002, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, MA (Oxon.)
Academic appointments
Clinical Legal Education Programme Leader, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - present
Legal Advice Centre Coordinator, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, 2014 - present
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University, 2013 - 2020
Postgraduate training
PGCert, United Kingdom, Liverpool John Moores University, 2013 - 2014
PG Dip (Law), United Kingdom, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, 2002 - 2003
Chapters
Stalker R, Buhler S. 2021. Place Based Education, Clinical Legal Education and Ethics McFaul H, Madhloom O. Thinking About Clinical Legal Education Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives Routledge 9781000452976
Editorial/letter to the editor
Diver A, Stalker R. Applied management and learning post-COVID19: Implications for managers and learners at work, beyond crises - Editorial for Special Issue Winter 2021 Journal of Work-Applied Management, :1-2 DOI
Diver A, Stalker R. Applied management and learning post-COVID19: Implications for managers and learners at work, beyond crises (Editorial to Special Issue) Journal of Work-Applied Management, DOI
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Nineteenth Public and Private Justice Course and Conference (2025): Law, Money and Human Rights - Public or Private Access to Justice?, Justice on a Budget: The Role of Law Clinics in UK Legal Assistance, https://ppj.pravo.unizg.hr/. 2025
Other, University of Luxembourg, Navigating New Horizons Addressing Challenges Confronting Legal Clinics in the Era of Emerging Technologies, Round table on Legal Clinics, Emerging Technologies and Ethics, https://www.uni.lu/fdef-en/events/legal-clinics-in-the-era-of-emerging-technologies/. 2025
Oral presentation, Online, International Committee of the American Association of Law School's Clinical Section and the AALS Externship Subcommittee on International and Semester Away Externships, Teaching Language Justice. 2025
Oral presentation, University of Amsterdam, 10th ENCLE conference: “Clinical Legal Education: the creation of knowledge through transformative experience”, Creating Knowledge Through Global Collaboration, https://encle.org/events-and-news/events/10th-encle-21st-ijcle-conference. 2024
Oral presentation, St. Louis, MO, USA, 20th Annual Transactional Clinical Conference of the Association of American Law Schools, Cultivating Community Through Global Collaboration. 2024
Oral presentation, Uzhorozod University, Ukraine (hybrid), ХVI International Scientific & Practical Conference «Transcarpathian Legal Readings: Sustainable Development and Institutional Capacity in the Conditions of War: National and International Legal Aspects», Cultivating Community Through Global Collaboration. 2024
Oral presentation, LJMU, 9th ENCLE Conference, "Ethics Everywhere All At Once": the view from tutors and students on the outcomes of, and reflections on, instituting an all-level curricular clinic, embedding compulsory ethics teaching. ”. 2023
Oral presentation, Northumbria University, The 15th Annual IJCLE (International Journal of Clinical Legal Education) Conference, “A study of the actions which clients attending a university law clinic take after they have received advice and the extent to which those actions help them to resolve their problem”. 2017
Oral presentation, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 8th Global Alliance for Justice Education Conference - "Justice Education for a Just Society", “Compasses and clocks: clinical identity and the litigant in person”.. 2015
Guest editor for Special Issue [JWAM].
Award:
LawWorks & Attorney General, LawWorks & Attorney General Award - Best New Pro Bono Activity (Windrush Community Law Clinic), https://www.lawworks.org.uk/solicitors-and-volunteers/get-involved/lawworks-and-attorney-general-student-pro-bono-awards. 2025
Conference organisation:
Conference organiser and board member of ENCLE, 9th Conference of the European Network for Clinical Legal Education: "Enhancing Clinical Legal Education in Europe: 10 years of ENCLE - Reflections and what's to come", https://www.encle.org/events-and-news/events/9th-encle-conference-2023-liverpool-practical-information. 2023