Kushal Sood
Senior Lecturer & Solicitor
Summary
Kush re-joined SHU after spending the last 16 months back in the familiar territory of legal aid practice, as the regional head of Community Care Law at Lawstop solicitors. He has worked in legal aid throughout his career, since being called to the Bar in 2006, specialising in acting for imprisoned clients. The only exception to this was in 2022, when he spent a year at Sheffield Hallam, as the prison clinic module lead. He will now be supervising placement students assisting with both criminal appeals and prison law casework.
Kush has been proactive throughout his career in campaigning for fair access to publicly funded and affordable legal advice, and for a non-discriminatory legal sector. He has been Committee Secretary for the Association of Prison Lawyers, and contributed to numerous consultations on legal aid and related issues. He has developed a keen interest over the years in the law's relationship with prison abolition, and the abolition movement more widely. He also has an interest in the relationship between utopianism and legal aid.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject area
- Law and Criminology
Courses taught
- Law
Modules taught
- Professional Practice Experience
- Extended Professional Practice