Allison Wolfgarten

Allison Wolfgarten serves as a Visiting Lecturer at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London, where she has taught since 1996. She concurrently holds an Associate Professor position in the Law programme at Notre Dame University in London. Her primary responsibilities include coordinating the BVC Course Admissions and Opinion Writing, while instructing in Opinion Writing and Drafting, Sale of Goods and Consumer Credit, and Civil Litigation and Advocacy. As an IATC-accredited advocacy trainer, she bridges theoretical and practical legal education.

Her academic credentials feature:

• LLB from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• LLM from Yale University, United States
• Barrister qualification from Middle Temple, United Kingdom
• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Wolfgarten's research centers on legal pedagogy and professional skills development, evidenced by founding the journal Education and the Law (published by Carfax for 15 years). Her expertise spans civil litigation methodology, advocacy training frameworks, and consumer protection law applications, with particular emphasis on integrating practical drafting techniques into legal curricula. This focus manifests through her opinion writing coordination and international examiner roles.

She actively shapes legal education standards as an external examiner for a BVC provider since January 2004 and for the University of the Witwatersrand's legal writing course in South Africa. Her administrative leadership extends to BVC admissions oversight and opinion writing program development, demonstrating sustained institutional commitment across transnational academic contexts.