Skip navigation

Lisa Down

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

I am a Senior Lecturer on the Bar Professional Training Course at Northumbria University. I have taught at Northumbria for almost twelve years and during which time I have taught on a number of modules.  My current  areas of teaching are Advocacy (both civil and criminal), Evidence and Opinion Writing.  I am also the module tutor for the Principles of Evidence and Procedure module on the BSc Computer Forensic course offered here at Northumbria.  

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Recognising the harms: the Sentencing Council's mitigating factor relating to pregnancy, child birth and the post-natal period, Down, L. 1 May 2025, In: Family Law
  • Preventing the criminalisation of children who have been victims of group-based sexual exploitation involving grooming tactics-understanding child sexual exploitation as enslavement, Arthur, R., Down, L. 1 Oct 2019, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Teaching & Learning PCAPL September 15 2005
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

Latest News and Features

UUK Future Jobs event at Northumbria University
Professor Greta Defeyter OBE and Andrew Forsey OBE pictured outside 10 Downing Street.
Illustration of the ecosystem in Antarctica around 90 million years ago. Research shows that wildfires regularly occurred near the South Pole at that time. Credit:  James McKay (University of Leeds).
Dr Lea Ferellec, a Research Fellow based in Northumbria's School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics
Professor Elliott Johnson and Professor Nicola Wake
Radar measurements of coastal ice all around Antarctica will be taken from the air in an effort to get more accurate calculations and reduce uncertainty about future global sea levels. Photo by Dr Kenichi Matsuoka
More news
Back to top