Rachel Rowley

Role

Rachel Rowley is a Lecturer. Immediately prior to her retirement from full time employment at NTU, Rachel was the Head of the Postgraduate Portfolio at Nottingham Law School, encompassing the Legal Practice Course, SQE courses, the Barristers Training Course, the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Academic Masters.

In her current role as Lecturer, Rachel is a Tutor and Assessor on the Law School’s Higher Rights of Audience (“HRA”) course, open to qualified Solicitors who wish to conduct advocacy in the Higher Courts.  She is also involved in the development and writing of course and module materials on the Practice courses.   Rachel is also a Supervisor of Masters level dissertations on the Barristers Training Course and the Legal Practice Course.

Career overview

Rachel qualified as a solicitor in 1986 and remained in practice until 1991, when she joined the Law School as a senior lecturer, at a time when the then “new” Legal Practice Course was being developed and rolled out. Rachel transferred to the Bar in 1997 and practised in Nottingham and latterly Birmingham, specialising ultimately in serious and complex child protection cases, regularly appearing in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal on occasions as Counsel. She rejoined Nottingham Law School in 2015 to teach on the Bar Professional Training Course and the Legal Practice Course. She was made a Principal Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Post Graduate Portfolio in 2016 and became Head of the Portfolio in 2020 and during that time, she  was heavily involved in the development of the roll out of the  new “SQE” courses at NLS. In 2018, she gained a Masters degree in Legal Practice. Rachel remains an honorary Tenant of St Philips Chambers, Birmingham. Rachel retired from full time employment at NTU, in August 2022.