Lucy Davies

Biography

Lucy Davies is a lecturer in Clinical Legal Education in the School of Law and the Housing Law Supervisor at Essex Law Clinic. She has a background in human rights protection fieldwork, and brings practical experience of legal aid housing law advice provision, mediation and welfare and debt advice through her work at Shelter Legal and Citizens Advice. Lucy has continued her connection with legal practice alongside her teaching. She was Housing Legal Aid Supervisor at Suffolk Law Centre until December 2023 and remains active in housing law practice as a housing possession court duty adviser at Ipswich, Chelmsford and Bury St Edmunds County Courts and a member of the Citizens Advice Housing Expert Panel. Since joining the Law Clinic, Lucy has developed the Law Clinic’s capacity to provide housing and homelessness advice on campus and at multiple community outreaches, expanding opportunities for student work in the community and supervising public legal education and advice work in housing law. As part of her role in the Essex Law Clinic she supervises the provision of housing advice by student advisers in the law clinic and coordinates projects in partnership with local community groups addressing homelessness, public legal education in housing conditions and tenants rights, welfare benefits provision, legal aid and the welfare of vulnerable migrants. Ongoing projects include the the Housing and Homelessness Project, Beacon House homelessness weekly outreach and the Housing Possession Court Duty Shadowing Project.

Qualifications

• BA (Jnt Hons) French and Hispanic Studies University of Liverpool,

• LLM International Criminal Law and the Law of Armed Conflict University of Nottingham,

• MPhil (Penal Philosophy and International Criminal Justice) University of Nottingham,

• Graduate Diploma in Law University of Hertfordshire,