Sarah Morse

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the School of Law and a non-practising solicitor. She joined the University in 2009 having previously specialised in employment law and personal injury, including industrial disease.

Sarah’s teaching is centred on experiential learning. She has held different roles in the Law School’s Student Law Office including Co-Director of the office between 2021/22 and 2022/23 and currently as an academic tutor. She designed, and leads, the Street Law module which aims to increase legal literacy in society and involves students delivering lessons to High School students on a range of legal topics.

This interest in experiential learning is reflected in Sarah’s research which includes contributing to conferences and publications relation to clinical legal education, public legal education and AI/technology within these fields. She established, and acted as Managing Editor of, the International Journal of Public Legal Education in 2017 (in publication until 2022) and is currently an editor of the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education.

Campus Address

CCE1, room 109

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Sarah's research interests include legal literacy, public legal education and clinical legal education.

Key Publications

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The Case for Public Legal Education Within the Expansion of Clinical Legal Education, Morse, S., Ridout, F. 21 May 2026, Clinical Legal Education in Europe, Bristol, Bristol University Press
Further Developing Street Law, McKeown, P., Morse, S. Mar 2016, The Legal Academic's Handbook, Basingstoke, Macmillan
Litigants in Person: is there a role for Higher Education?, McKeown, P., Morse, S. Mar 2015, In: The Law Teacher
A model of clinic- assisting litigants in person, McKeown, P., Morse, S. 15 Jul 2014, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 12th Annual Conference
Theory and Practice- how do we learn and teach interviewing skills in a legal context?, Morse, S. 22 May 2014, Northumbria Research Conference
Standardised client: the way forward for teaching law students interviewing skills?, Morse, S., Sharp, T. 16 Oct 2013, Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education: 4th Annual conference (ACCLE)
What is the role of the legal clinic and should it be influenced by the desire to achieve social justice?, Morse, S., Boothby, C. Jul 2011, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference (IJCLE 2011)
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the fairest reflection method of all?, Morse, S., Foster, C., Murray, V. Jul 2010, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference (IJCLE 2010)