Amanda Fancourt is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Legal Education. She joined the Professional Law Institute, part of The Dickson Poon School of Law, in November 2021. Her key responsibilities are the development and delivery of the MSc/PG Dip in Law and Professional Practice. She is module leader for two MSc Year 2 modules: Business Practice and Company Financing.

From 2008 to 2021, Amanda was a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and senior personal tutor at the City, University of London Law School, where she taught Business Law and Practice, Drafting and Equity Finance. In 2018, she achieved a Masters in Academic Practice at City. From 2005 to 2008, Amanda was vocational education developer at the UK Centre for Legal Education, University of Warwick.

She qualified and practised as a solicitor in the City of London before joining the Legal Practice Course team, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (OXILP) in 1994 where she taught for 11 years.

Amanda has spoken at several national and international legal education conferences on topics including legal skills, professional conduct and student support and transitions.

Currently she is a Chief Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and an external examiner for LLB and LLM programmes at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Northumbria. Amanda is a member of the Association of Law Teachers and a past Chair and Honorary Secretary.

She is also a Fellow of the HEA.

Teaching on the MSc/PGDip in Law and Professional Practice

• Year 1 – The Law of Business Organisations
• Year 2 - Business Practice and Company Financing

Research interests

Amanda’s research interests centre on corporate governance and on student support and managing student transitions.

PURE profile 

For more information on Amanda's research, visit her research portal.