About Lightbulb Law

A traditional respect for learning. A modern way of delivering it.

Lightbulb Law combines legal-education experience, critical thinking and agile digital delivery in a growing public learning ecosystem.

The historic exterior of Manchester Law Library.
Original photograph by Jason Addy.

The project

A legal-learning ecosystem with a public front door.

Lightbulb Law is being developed around a simple belief: high-quality legal learning can be rigorous without becoming needlessly forbidding, and accessible without being diluted.

Free podcasts and supporting resources form the public face of the project. Additional app and membership resources are in development for learners who later want to go further. Institutional partnerships can support scale while the brand retains an independent relationship with learners.

Jason Addy with his wife Helen at the 2022 Lecturer of the Year award ceremony.
Receiving the 2022 Lecturer of the Year award, following student nominations.

Recognition

Teaching recognised by students.

The award reflected student nominations and sits naturally within Lightbulb Law’s emphasis on clear explanation, confidence-building and serious learning made approachable.

Traditional in atmosphere; contemporary in delivery. Lightbulb Law aims for the calm of a good legal library with the agility of modern digital learning — a little “clicks and mortarboard.”