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Author:   Graham Ferris ,  Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032773728

ISBN 10:   1032773723
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Vulnerability theory and higher education 2. Undermining resilience: how the modern UK university manufactures heightened vulnerability in legal academics and what is to be done 3. Rethinking the neoliberal university: embracing vulnerability in English law schools? 4. Vulnerability, the future of the criminal defence profession, and the implications for teaching and learning 5. Vulnerability theory as a tool against a banking model of legal education 6. The positive and negative roles of grant funding as mechanisms for societal transformation and the development of community resilience 7. The university’s fragile role in fostering societal resilience by facilitating the development of community-engaged professionalism

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Graham Ferris is a retired Associate Professor who still teaches legal theory at Nottingham Trent University. He has published on property law, legal history, legal theory, ethics, and legal education. He has three adult children and hopes to continue research using vulnerability theory in the future. Martha Albertson Fineman is Robet W Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University. She is the Founding Director of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and recipient of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, she has received numerous awards for her interdisciplinary scholarship on vulnerability, dependency, care, and the legal regulation of intimacy.

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