Abstract
Legal education is not a spectator sport. Discussions of legal education tend towards the political, the practical and the methodological and not towards the theoretical or the analytical. As a subject of study it is often thought of as weak, unrigorous or worse still “sociological”. This paper takes a small step in the direction of change, arguing that university legal education at a time of enormous change in the legal profession and in legal education may have lost its way. Undergraduate legal education sends approximately 45% of its graduates into the profession. And the professions have progressively “released” some of their hegemony over university legal education. This article asks where educators of undergraduate lawyers should be looking for guidance: towards the rest of the Academy, to the discipline of education, to the university law faculty itself - or whether the legal profession is still an important model, lodestar, provider of meaning and generator of purpose.
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