Claire Illingworth

Profile

Biography

LLB Hons, LPC, Solicitor (non-practising), PGCPHE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Senior Lecturer

Following my undergraduate studies I completed the LPC at The College of Law (now the University of Law) and then commenced my training contract at a general practice in Leeds. I qualified as a Solicitor in 2004, specialising in family law. I then moved into higher education and was a Senior Lecturer at BPP Law School in Leeds, teaching the LPC, LLM Legal Practice and LLB. During my 15 years at BPP I held module leader and programme leader roles and was the Legal Advice Clinic co-ordinator. My specialist teaching areas are family law and property practice, together with various legal skills including interviewing, advocacy, accounts and professional conduct. 

I joined York Law School as a Lecturer in October 2021 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in October 2024. Having been a Programme Leader for the LLB for 4 years, I am now the Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching for the law school alongside various module leader roles on the LLB and LLM SQE.

Departmental roles

• Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching
• Subject Leader -LLM SQE Property Practice and Solicitors Accounts
• Module Leader - LLB Family Law in Practice and LLM SQE Family Law and Practice 

Teaching

Undergraduate

• LLB Year 2: Advanced Legal Skills and Family Law
• LLB Year 3: Dissertation supervisor; Clinic supervisor;  Family Law; Family Law in Practice (module leader)

Postgraduate

• LLM SQE Property Law and Practice
• LLM SQE Solicitors Accounts
• LLM SQE Family Law and Practice
• LLM SQE2 Legal Skills