Rate My Professor Penny Carey

Professor Penny Carey serves as Professor of Legal Education and Leadership and Dean of the Schools of Law and Education at the University of Hertfordshire. With over 28 years in higher education, she qualified as a solicitor in 1989 following articles at Taylor Walton Solicitors, specializing in company and insolvency law, before joining the University in 1994. Throughout her tenure, she has occupied various senior positions across School, Faculty, and institutional levels. Her academic qualifications include an LLB from Kingston University (1986), Law Society Finals from the College of Law (1987), an LLM from University College London with a dissertation on Hartian jurisprudential analysis of the attribution of blame in coroners inquest decisions (1998), and an EdD from the University of Hertfordshire on internationalisation strategies of higher education institutions: from process to ethos conceptualisation (ongoing since 2012).

Carey's primary research interests lie in the internationalisation of higher education at theoretical, national policy, and strategy implementation levels in UK higher education institutions, alongside commercial law areas including UK and international commercial law, securities and insolvency, company law, and contract law. Her key publications encompass the conference paper 'Deconstructing the practice of internationalisation: from a policy position to a way of being' (2010), 'Internationalisation of higher education in the UK - Towards a sustainable model' (2009), and the article 'Getting Away With It - Lessons from Shipman' in Health Care Risk (1999). As a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), she holds key sectoral positions such as Chair of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS), Dean of The Law Society's Learning and Development Steering Group overseeing professional development for 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales, member of the 2022 QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Law Advisory Panel, Director of LawCabs, and co-chair of a consortium of 12 UK universities partnering with the largest provider of legal education in Malaysia. She has also served as Council Member of the Hertfordshire Law Society since 2013 and in multiple external examiner roles, including Chief External Examiner for the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice since 2020.