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xv, 454 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents note continued: 12.1.The eternal themes of teaching, scholarship and service -- 12.2.Where law schools differ -- 12.3.What law schools have in common -- 12.4.Opportunities for governance -- 12.5.Opportunities for our research -- 12.6.Opportunities for our education -- 12.7.Conclusion: rethinking the law school |
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Contents note continued: 2.9.Scientific integrity and the league tables: ever more writing, or more reading? -- 3.Law school in search of identity -- 3.1.The 'odd man out' in the university? -- 3.2.Should 'law' be in the university? -- 3.3.Is law an academic discipline? -- 3.4.Is law an international discipline? -- 3.5.Does law need other disciplines? -- 3.6.Producing academics or professionals? -- 3.7.Tapping poor law students: education for profit? -- 3.8.Values -- 4.Educating law students -- 4.1.'As university that world was known' -- 4.2.What makes a good lawyer? -- 4.3.An excursion into medicine -- 4.4.Knowledge and understanding, attitude and skills -- 4.5.Conclusions and outlook -- 5.Pedagogy: teaching law students -- 5.1.Some grounds for concern? -- 5.2.Teaching and learning -- 5.3.Do students differ? -- 5.4.The case dialogue method -- 5.5.Reading: what makes a good textbook for freshers? -- 5.6.The challenge of mass education: the Leiden project -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.7.Taking teaching seriously -- 5.8.Conclusions and outlook -- 6.Legal scholarship: venerable and vulnerable -- 6.1.One question, nine answers -- 6.2.Is 'law' a science? -- 6.3.What makes legal scholarship vulnerable? -- 6.4.Three perspectives on legal research -- 6.5.Our common concern for law as an academic discipline -- 6.6.Conclusions and outlook -- 7.Lawyers' ways of publishing -- 7.1.Goodbye to law reviews? -- 7.2.The editors: student- or peer-run journals? -- 7.3.Law journals: accessibility, quality, impact and readership -- 7.4.Goodbye to law books? -- 7.5.Towards an international community of legal scholars -- 7.6.Conclusions and outlook -- 8.Law schools' economic and societal impact -- 8.1.Legal scholarship: no longer a matter of life and death -- 8.2.Do universities have a third mission? -- 8.3.The world's 'grand challenges' -- 8.4.International legal cooperation: the example of Albania -- |
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Contents note continued: 8.5.Law and the city: the local impact of law schools -- 8.6.Conclusions and outlook -- 9.Whose law school is it? -- 9.1.Universities under attack? -- 9.2.The academics? -- 9.3.The students (and their parents) as consumers? -- 9.4.Our future: the PhD students? -- 9.5.The alumni and benefactors? -- 9.6.Nobody? University as a public good -- 10.Creating creativity in the law school -- 10.1.The three princes of Serendib -- 10.2.Towards a serendipitous microenvironment -- 10.3.Leadership = Being there -- 10.4.Creating creativity = Creating diversity -- 10.5.The importance of food and drink -- 10.6.Conclusions and outlook -- 11.Governing law schools: strategy, leadership and collegiality -- 11.1.The importance of having a strategy -- 11.2.'Deaning' -- 11.3.Collegiality and shared leadership -- 11.4.Managing professionals? -- 11.5.My own five golden rules -- 11.6.Conclusions and outlook -- 12.Towards a common agenda for law schools: some conclusions -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Some challenges for legal education -- About legal research -- And so many other issues -- Are deans responsible? -- Some methodological remarks -- 1.Law schools: some preliminary sketches -- 1.1.Law schools in all shapes and sizes -- 1.2.The United States and the United Kingdom -- 1.3.The European continent -- 1.4.Asia -- 1.5.Australia -- 1.6.Latin America -- 1.7.Africa -- 1.8.Some conclusions -- 2.Universities and their strategic challenges -- 2.1.'Universitas: what a proud word!' -- 2.2.Funding of the universities -- 2.3.Widening participation: massification, diversification, privatisation and marketisation -- 2.4.Diversification in research and the triple helix challenge -- 2.5.Between institutional autonomy and state regulation -- 2.6.Academics versus managers -- 2.7.Globalisation and internationalisation of higher education and research -- 2.8.Size and scope: collaboration in higher education -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Law schools.
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Law -- Study and teaching.
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| ISBN |
9781107073890 (hbk.) |
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(PDF ebook) |
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