Mr Brett Koenig

Brett graduated with an LLB Hons degree from the University of Leicester in 2014. Brett then spent 2015-2019 in legal practice as a specialist in Commercial Litigation after qualifying as a Solicitor. He then joined De Montfort University in 2019 to teach on both the Legal Practice Course and on the LLB. Brett teaches across all three years on the LLB including Tort, Law and Medicine, English Legal Systems and Inter-Professional Legal Skills. In addition to this, he teaches Litigation, Advocacy, Drafting, Writing and Interviewing on professional legal programs.

Brett holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. He has become an award-winning teacher after receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Brett is the head of postgraduate careers and employability and he is passionate about encouraging social mobility, diversity and inclusivity in the legal profession. In this role he oversees commercial and executive development activities for the Law school. Additionally he is part of the LLB Programme Leadership team in his role as Year Tutor. Brett is a representative for Law at the staff assembly. He is also programme leader for the LPC (PT) as well as holding numerous module leaderships. 

Brett is the Associate Head of the Law School and leads on  Student Experience and Quality for the School. He works closely with the Associate Dean Education to ensure a high-quality student experience in the School and support department level and faculty wide projects. The role involves implementing faculty strategy with respect to student experience and quality agendas and promoting best practice in these areas.

A year on the Block: What have we learned from a shift in delivery? 2023 Koenig, B. WONKHE

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-year-on-the-block-what-have-we-learned-from-a-shift-in-delivery/

Koenig, B. 2021. Reflections on Learning and Teaching During the Pandemic. Gateway Papers, 2(1): 2, pp. 1–3. DOI

'Reflecting to Rebuild and Strengthen Professional Develpment, A Collection of 'Post-Online' Conversations'

Cartwright, Edward; Virmani, Swati; Allen, Tom; Chapman, Koenig, Brett; et al. (2020):  

https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/figure/Reflecting_to_Rebuild_and_Strengthen_Professional_Development_A_Collection_of_Post-Online_Conversations/12968087

'Reflections on Learning and Teaching during COVID' - Higher Education Policy Institute

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2021/03/12/twin-blogs-learning-teaching-and-student-retention/

'The Relationship between law schools and tech in a post-COVID world.'

The quality of education must remain high if universities are to remain competitive. 

https://www.legalcheek.com/lc-journal-posts/law-schools-and-the-role-of-tech-in-a-post-covid-world/

Legal Practice Course - Full time, part time, blended - Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Writing, Drafting, Advocacy, Interviewing and Advising. 

LLB Law of Tort

LLB Law and Medicine

LLB Inter-Professional Legal Skills 

LLB Hons - University of Leicester

Legal Practice Course 

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice 

Senior Fellow of Advance HE 

Legal Practice Course

LLB

LLM 

Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award Winner 2021 

Students' Choice Teaching Award Winner 2023

External Examiner - University of Derby 2022 - Present

Practising certificate - Solicitor

Learning in Blocks: Evaluation the impact of immersive learning’ 2023

Digifest 2021 

SRA SQE Conference 2020

Legal Cheek Conference 2020 

Trustee and Board Member for Community Advice and Law Service 

 ·        Invited as guest speaker to Queen Mary University Belfast - Teaching and learning in your subject - leading change in your program teams. 

 ·        Presenter at ‘Learning in Blocks: Evaluation the impact of immersive learning’ Conference 

* Presenter at Artificial Intelligence Festival - Use of AI in Law Schools

 ·        Invited as guest speaker to present on T&L strategy to Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon