LEGAL ACADEMICS CULTURE AND IDENTITIESPDF电子书下载

1 Studying Legal Academics 1

Why Study Legal Academics? 1

‘Culture’and ‘Identity’ 4

‘Culture’ 5

‘Identity’ 10

Method 14

Conclusion 26

2 Legal Education and the Lived Experience of Legal Academics 27

Legal Education 27

Legal Education: Pedagogy 28

Legal Education: Policy 30

Legal Education: Approaches to Law 35

Inaugural Lectures and Other Occasional Writing 38

Historical Perspectives 39

Empirical Surveys of the Legal Academy 41

The ‘Private Life’ of Legal Academia 42

Conclusion 47

3 Inhabiting the Discipline of Law 49

Approaches to Law 49

A Discipline in Transition: From Doctrine to Socio-Legal Studies 54

The Impact of Feminism 60

The Future of the Discipline 63

Possible Difficulties Ahead 65

Anti-Intellectualism of Law 69

Conclusion 72

4 The Legal Academic Career 73

Careers and the Culture of Academic Law 73

Reading Law 73

The Legal Academic Career: Vocational or Academic? 75

Academia as Second Best 79

The Qualities/Skills of a ‘Good’ Academic Lawyer 81

Getting On 86

Success 92

Conclusion 95

5 The Experience of Being a Legal Academic 97

Introduction 97

Proud to be a Legal Academic? 97

Job Satisfaction 101

Autonomy 104

Variety 105

The Worst of Times 107

Working at Home 111

Work-Life Balance 113

Conclusion 118

6 Teaching and Research in the Legal Academy 121

Teaching 121

Lecturing as Performing 124

Teaching as Part of Professional identity 129

The Institutional Attitude to Teaching 130

Research in the Legal Academy 133

The RAE effect 135

Evaluation of the RAE 138

Conclusion 141

7 Inside and Outside the Academic World 143

Introduction 143

Administration 143

Outside Concerns 151

Networking 153

The Changing World 159

Conclusion 165

8 Identity Matters 167

Introduction 167

Gender 168

Class 175

Race, Ethnicity and Legal Academics 181

Sexual Orientation 183

Dressed for the Part 186

Conclusion 196

9 Conclusion 197

Introduction 197

Law as a Discipline 197

The Changing Culture of Academic Law 199

Different Perspectives on the Culture of Law: Old and New Universities 200

Key Aspects of Professional Identity 201

Other Identity Matters 203

‘Culture’, ‘Identities’ and the Discipline of Law 204

Bibliography 207

Index 223