Abstract
Throughout Globalisation and Legal Scholarship, William Twining often mentions ‘legal scholarship’ and ‘legal education’ in the same breath, without discussing the practical and institutional challenges that academic lawyers may face if they are to meaningfully carry global perspectives into their legal pedagogy. Bridging Twining's work with the pedagogical work of Harry Arthurs and the theoretical work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the present paper illuminates tensions within the legal academy that may stand in opposition to the globally informed theoretical challenges to Western understandings of law, and the competing conceptions of globalisation which vie for supremacy in Canadian law faculties. The author argues that the adoption of global perspectives in the Canadian specialist's legal scholarship (as advocated by Twining) does not provide for a seamless transition into legal education, but that these challenges should be confronted rather than capitulated to.
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