Director of LLM Programmes, Lawyering Skills and Competitions Lead
LLB in European Law (Warwick), European Certificate of Integrated Legal Studies (Warwick, Lille, Saarland), PhD (Surrey), GCLT in HE (Surrey), Solicitor (non-practising).
Teaching and coaching
Dr Walsh leads the Legal Skills and Procedure module that introduces undergraduate law students to the role of an advocate in a dispute resolution setting, and coaches them on the skills required to effectively protect a client’s interests in both a negotiation and a courtroom setting.
As the Lawyering Skills and Competitions Lead at the Law School, Dr Walsh organises the school’s participation in numerous national and international skills-based competitions, as well as overseeing internal student-led competitions and other workshops and events relating to lawyering skills. Teams coached by Dr Walsh have competed in the International Semi-Final of the 2024 Telders International Law Moot Court competition in the Hague, succeeded in reaching the semi-finals of the 2022-23 OUP & ICCA National Mooting Competition, and scored the highest (out of 62 teams) in the regional rounds of the 2023 CEDR Student Negotiation Competition.
She is a Fellow of Advance HE and has led undergraduate and postgraduate modules on a wide variety of subjects including competition law, European Union law, contract law, and international human rights. She previously taught at the University of Surrey and the University of Winchester.
Professional Experience
Dr Walsh qualified as a Solicitor in 2012, having trained at DAC Beachcroft LLP in London and Balaguer, Morera & Asociados in Barcelona. She trained in the areas of international financial and commercial dispute resolution and corporate law. She has provided research assistance to the authors of a leading practitioner’s guide to the Arbitration Act and continues to research and teach about Non-Court Dispute Resolution.
Research
Dr Walsh’s research focuses on judicial independence and accountability, having conducted extensive empirical research on processes for the removal of judges for malperformance in Argentina for her doctoral studies. In particular, her research evaluates the efficiency of judicial councils in protecting and advancing both judicial independence and accountability within contexts of political polarisation and mistrust of institutions. She has consulted with the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on judicial ethics, judicial independence, and judicial accountability in Latin America and beyond. She is an editor of the International Journal for Court Administration.
Broader research interests include courts and dispute resolution, corruption and informality, accountability, and the interaction between institutionalisation and autonomy. Dr Walsh’s research has also covered access to justice for indigenous peoples. Her research continues to draw on her interest in comparative law and socio-legal research methodology. She is a graduate of the trilateral and trilingual Integrated Common Programme run jointly by the Universities of Warwick, Lille II (France), and Saarland (Germany), which specialised in comparative European commercial law. She also holds an LLB in European Law from Warwick University.
Supervision
Dr Walsh is interested in supervising research projects on accountability, dispute resolution, corruption, professional ethics, judicial disciplinary and impeachment proceedings, in particular those proposing to adopt comparative or empirical methodologies.
Languages
Dr Walsh is fluent in Spanish, French, and German, and has undertaken many legal, academic, and other translations on a freelance basis. This includes having translated a large portion of a book on children’s rights from a cross-cultural perspective. She is learning Bulgarian.
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