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Miss Sara Jade Desforges

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 250 6136

E: sara.desforges@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Sara joined ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ as a full time Senior Law Lecturer in 2018.

Sara is the module leader for the undergraduate module Inter Professional Legal Skills and also teaches on the undergraduate modules Law and Medicine and Equity and Trusts. At postgraduate level Sara teaches Property Law and Administration of Estates on the SQE LLM. 

Sara is the lead for the Collaborative Online International Learning project between ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ and Nova South Eastern University in Florida. 

Sara has been a module leader for and taught on a number of subjects on the Legal Practice Course at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ as well as teaching the Legal Practice Course at other higher education institutions, namely University West of England and Derby University.

Sara is actively involved in the design and writing of courses and modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Sara was part of the team to design the bespoke ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Trinidadian Legal Practice Course and taught this course at the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ campus and spent time teaching in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sara acts as a dissertation supervisor to students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

Sara is an external examiner for The University of Law in relation to a number of postgraduate subjects. 

Areas of teaching

Inter Professional Legal Skills, Equity and Trusts, Law and Medicine, Property Law and Administration of Estates- SQE, Dissertation supervision. 

Qualifications


  • LL.B (Honours)
  • PG Diploma in Legal Practice 
  • Effective Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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LL.B, LPC, LLM SQE

Honours and awards

 

Membership of external committees

External examiner- University of Law

Professional licences and certificates

 

Consultancy work

 

Current research students