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Staff Profile

Professor Bryan Clark

Professor of Law and Civil Justice

  • Email: bryan.clark@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 2087558
  • Address: 21-24 Windsor Terrace
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

BA (Robert Gordon), LLM (Dundee). PhD (Glasgow)

I joined the Law School in April 2019 as a Professor having previously spent 15 years at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where I was Head of School from 2013-2016. Prior to that I was a lecturer at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, a researcher at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and have also worked in Further Education. 

I am currently Deputy Head of Department (Academic Affairs)

I am a socio legal scholar with interests in mediation and alternative dispute resolution and in particular how these processes interact with formal civil justice and the workings of lawyers and judges.  I also have interests in aspects of commercial law and access to justice more broadly. 

I am passionate about teaching, aiding students to become reflective learners and an advocate of widening access to legal education and the legal profession.  

Twitter: @clarkbryan71

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-clark-670139182/

Bryan Clark (researchgate.net)


Research

My main research interests lie in the area of ADR, mediation and in particular the interaction of these processes with formal civil justice, the workings of courts and lawyers and access to justice.  I am also interested in aspects of commercial law, particularly company law and corporate governance issues. I regularly contribute to national and international seminars and conferences .  My publications include Lawyers and Mediation (Springer, 2012) and the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia Title on Mediation (Sweet and Maxwell, 2014, update 2018).

I am active in professional organisations relevant to my fields of expertise.  I am currently a Board Member of the Arab Mediation Centre - amcadr.org -  Chair of the Validation and Accreditation Panel of Relationships Scotland, former Board Member of Scottish Mediation and former Member of the Civil Mediation Council's Academic Committee. I am an Adviser to Lex Erudites - LEX ERUDITES - and a Global Adviser (UK) for Mediate Guru - Mediation | Mediateguru  I was also a Member of the Expert Group for the recent Members Bill on promoting Mediation in Simple Procedure for the Scottish Parliament.  

I was a judge in the 2021 InADR international student mediation competition and the Mediate Guru international student mediation and advocacy competition. 

I recently delivered a webinar for Lex Erudites - LEX ERUDITES - on the emergence of mediation in the modern civil justice system, available here: Webinar "Resurrection of Mediation in the Contemporary Civil Justice System" - YouTube 

I also presented a seminar on lawyers and mediation for students at the British University in Egypt as part of the Weinstein International Foundation student mediation competition and have recently presented papers at a range of in person and online conferences and seminars including for Scottish Mediation, Mediate Guru, at the SLSA annual conference (2021) and the 9th Australian ADR Research Network Round Table and Civil Justice Research Conference


Some ongoing work includes:

Examination of court based mediation in Scotland, England and other jurisdictions. 

Research into the impact of the Singapore Convention.

A new edition of my monograph Lawyers and Mediation (Springer, 2012) - Lawyers and Mediation | SpringerLink  

An interview based study of international commercial mediators

A study of Scottish judges and technology 

I am keen to hear from prospective PhD students in my fields of interest





Teaching

This academic year I am leading the stage 3 UG elective in commercial law and dispute resolution LAW3047 and from September 2022 will be running a new online LLM in Mediation and Commercial Dispute Resolution 

I am also the coach for the Newcastle Law School student mediation team and heavily involved in training students in mediation and mediation advocacy

Publications