Futures of legal education and the legal profession /

Futures of legal education and the legal profession / edited by Hilary Sommerlad, Sonia Harris-Short, Steven Vaughan and Richard Young. - Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2015. - xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Papers from a second conference held in October 2013 by Birmingham Law School's Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The futures of legal education and the legal profession / Professionalism, enterprise and the market : contradictory or complementary? / Financialisation by proxy : the case of large city law firms / Delivering family justice : new ways of working for lawyers in divorce and separation / Judicial diversity and the 'new' judge / The LETRs (still) in the post : the legal education and training review and the reform of legal services education and training : a personal (re)view / Poor thinking, poor outcome? The future of the law degree after the legal education and training review and the case for socio-legalism / Creating a more flexible approach to education and training / The future of legal education from the profession's viewpoint : a brave new world? / An agenda for research on the legal profession and legal education : one American's perspective / Hilary Sommerlad, Richard Young, Steven Vaughan and Sonia Harris-Short -- Julia Evetts -- James R. Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio -- Mavis Maclean -- Rosemary Hunter -- Julian Webb -- Andrew Sanders -- Alex Roy -- Tony King -- Richard L. Abel.

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Law--Study and teaching--Great Britain--Congresses.
Law--Study and teaching.


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Conference proceedings.

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