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Overview
Danon is an Associate Professor and the Director of Digital Literacies at The City Law School. Danon led the design and launch of City St George's first SQE training programme and has extensive experience of teaching across both undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes, as well as delivering training to legal practitioners. Her main teaching areas relate to Legal Practice, AI and Legal Technology, Professional Legal Skills and Digital Literacies. Danon's research interests include AI & Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning and Digital Literacies in the context of the legal profession, legal education and training. Danon is a Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
Danon has been involved in a broad range of learning design and knowledge management projects both at City St George's and at previous organisations including BPP University, Competition & Markets Authority and the University of Hertfordshire, including designing and leading Company Law, Business Law and professional skills modules. Prior to her teaching career, Danon was a corporate solicitor in private practice. She is also an External Examiner for a number of LLB and MSc Law and Professional Practice modules at Kings College London.
Qualifications
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
- Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology, Association for Learning Technology, United Kingdom
- Solicitor (non-practising - working in higher education), SRA, United Kingdom
- LLB (Hons), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Postgraduate training
- Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, London, United Kingdom
Professional activities
Events/conferences (8)
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Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference. (Conference) University of Exeter (2026). Invited speaker.
Paper: Developing 'next-gen' legal research skills: agile learning design to support future-ready law students & legal educators
Author: Pritchard, D. -
Disrupting Tradition: Pedagogical Innovation in Legal Education. (Conference) The Open University (2026).
Paper: Foundations and Frontiers - supporting development of traditional and digitally mediated professional legal skills
Author: Pritchard, D. -
Building Bridges: A symposium on Human-AI Interaction. (Conference) University of Warwick (2025). Invited speaker.
Paper: The Educator's Dilemma: GenAI's promise and peril for instructional and learning design - a case study of Human-AI interaction
Author: Pritchard, D. -
Symposium: The Role of AI in Legal Education – Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers. (Conference) University of Westminster, London, UK (2025). Invited speaker.
Paper: “GenAIded”? A case study of Human-AI collaboration for instructional and learning design in a legal education context
Author: Pritchard, D. -
The Open University: launch event for 'AI, Law and Legal Training' resources. London, UK (2025). Invited speaker.
Description: Panellist (AI & Legal Education) -
City St George's GenAI Day. (2025).
Description: Panellist (AI & Education) -
The Alan Turing Institute: PhD student presentations. (2025). Invited speaker.
Paper: How is the technologization of legal practice influencing the development of digital capabilities in legal education & training in England & Wales?
Author: Pritchard, D.
Description: Selected to present my ongoing PhD research at this interdisciplinary event. -
UCISA webinar: Striving for consistency in VLE module design. online (2024). Invited speaker.
Paper: More than a document repository? Exploring the importance of learning design on VLE module development
Author: Danon Pritchard
Description: Presented findings from my phenomenographic study which explored student and staff attitudes to VLE module site learning design across several HEI’s in the UK.
Keynote lecture/speech
- 'SQE route into law - what works best and how can we advise students'. Online (2022). Invited by AGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services) to present this webinar to their members
Online articles (3)
- AI's disruptive potential for legal education and practice. (2025). City St George's website, Digital Transformation microsite (Spotlights)
- AI Generation Gap. (2025). The Law Society Gazette (Joanna Goodman) Quoted in this article by Joanna Goodman
- 'Digital Brief'. (2025). 'Future Lawyer' blog on Lawbore Regular columnist on digital skills and tech for The City Law School's Lawbore 'Future Lawyer' blog