Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first
full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic
reforms that have swept through universities over the last two
decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia,
New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret Thornton considers the
impact of the market on students, academics and law schools,
documenting how both the curriculum and pedagogical methods have
changed. If the passing of the idea of the university is rued,
concern usually focuses on the humanities and the natural sciences.
In this respect, law has been regarded as privileged because of the
virtually unstoppable demand for law places and the willingness of
students to pay high fees. And, as this book shows, it is
commercial and instrumental forms of legal training that are now
favoured, whilst the humanistic, critical, theoretical and social
justice aspects of legal knowledge have been corroded. Privatising
the Public University will be of considerable interest to legal
academics; but it will also be invaluable work for anyone
interested in the future of higher education, or, more generally,
in the corporatization of culture.
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