Presentation at HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Engaging legal education'. As part of the Higher Education Academy’s commitment to support strategic development within disciplines, this summit event provided the opportunity to bring together an expert audience to discuss and plan actions on a key area of our work. This presentation forms part of a blog post which can be accessed via: http://bit.ly/1iv2kYu For further details of HEA Social Sciences work relating to 'Supporting the future of legal education' please see http://bit.ly/1ezsxUf