A Swansea University academic has been invited to take part in a leading international conference highlighting the challenges facing legal scholars in developing bilingual learning opportunities and bilingual legal scholarship.
Dr Gwynedd Parry, a senior lecturer in the School of Law, will address a conference at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law at Onati in the Basque Country.
The conference will be held on 27 and 28 May, and will include presentations by academics from a wide variety of nations including Italy, Finland, Romania, Ireland, Canada, the Basque Country and Switzerland.
Dr Parry’s presentation is entitled, “Plus ça change…? Devolution, a Federal College and bilingual legal scholarship in Wales.”
On the second day of the conference, Dr Parry will be one of four academics invited to take part in a question and answer forum discussing the future of bilingual legal education within European universities.
“It’s a great honour to be invited to take part in this conference,” said Dr Parry, who chairs the Welsh Medium Law Network Panel for universities across Wales.
“This is an opportunity to undertake two very important tasks. First of all, it’s a way of informing international academics about the situation regarding bilingual legal education in Wales. It’s also a great chance to share ideas, and to discuss and learn, and that is something which is absolutely imperative.”
Dr Parry has been on the academic staff at Swansea University for eight years. He is currently on a year’s sabbatical to complete an academic Law volume in Welsh, as part of a project which is being funded by the Centre for Welsh Medium Higher Education.
