Overview

Higher Education institutions around the world are facing a situation of diminishing resources and increasing state inference. How have law schools reacted to this? Is there an increasing movement towards the training of professional lawyers, or is the liberal law degree alive and well? What are the pedagogic concerns of law teachers in this new environment? This volume brings together the work of a number of distinguished scholars who have examined such questions from a number of different perspectives.

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Author:   Anthony Bradney ,  Fiona Cownie
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Blackwell Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.256kg
ISBN:  

9780631211372

ISBN 10:   0631211373
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   18 August 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1. Thinking About Law Schools: Rutland Reviewed: William Twinning (University College London). 2. The Political Economy of Canadian Legal Education: H. W. Arthurs (York University, Canada). 3.'Failed Sociologists' in the Market Place: Law Schools in Australia: Christine Parker and Andrew Goldsmith (University of New South Wales, and School of Cultural Studies, Adelaide). 4. Privatizing the Universities: Jane Kelsey (University of Auckland). 5. Law as a Parasitic Discipline: Anthony Bradney (University of Leicester). 6. New Wine in Old Bottles or New Wine in New Bottles?: Pat Leighton (Manchester Metropolitan University). 7. Women Legal Academics- A New Research Agenda?: Fiona Cownie (University of Leicester). 8. Gazing into the Future through a VDU: Communications, Information Technology, and Law Teaching: Peter Alldridge and Ann Mumford (Cardiff Law School). 9. Ethics for Lawyers or Ethics for Citizens?New Directions for Legal Education: Julian Webb (University of the West of England). 10. History is Past Politics:A Critique of the Legal Skills Movement in England and Wales: Andrew Boon (University of Westminster).

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Anthony Bradney is instructs students in the areas of of law and religion, legal pluralism, law and popular culture, law and literature, university legal education and judicial studies. He is the Honorary Memberships Secretary of the Society of Legal.

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