Legal Academics: Culture and Identities by Fiona Cownie

Legal Academics: Culture and Identities



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Legal Academics: Culture and Identities Fiona Cownie
Language: English
Page: 227
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1841130613, 9781847310323
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This is a qualitative study by an experienced 'inside researcher' and it is theoretically and methodologically sophisticatedThis book is a significant achievement and deserves to be read by present and potential academic lawyers and those who have to deal with them.William TwiningJournal of Law and Society, Vol 32, No 42005This is an ambitious and stimulating bookThe ambition of the book lies in its aim of not only identifying the experiences and views of law teachers but in aiming to define the essential identity of law teachers themselvesthe various contexts for the research, especially the literature on 'identity' are thoroughly explored and well presentedThe book really comes alivewith the quotes from the interviews, which are well selectedthis is a very worthwhile and scholarly effort.Patricia Leighton, University of GlamorganThe Law TeacherDecember 2004Examining the habits of law's inhabitants, Fiona Cownie found the discipline in flux. This is, according to her, particularly true for legal academics' approach to law.Shedding light on various aspects of the legal academic career, from the initial decision to study law at university to the qualities and skills which contemporary legal academics think are necessary to be a good legal academicFiona Cownie presents rather sobering conclusions.Alexandra KemmererGerman Law JournalCownie wants to make legal academia more comprehensible to outsiders and, at the same time, contribute to the debate about what it means to study lawCownie has managed, with her 'purposive conversations', to tease out some of the latent tensions in being a contemporary legal academicAs a mirror, Legal Academics provides an interesting reflection.Michael Plaxton, University of AberdeenModern Law ReviewJanuary 2005Cownie's rich material gives up much to work with, a valuable body of evidence, and many further lines of inquiry to pursue...establishing a baseline is a difficult task, but one which this work arguably achieves.Bela ChatterjeeLegal StudiesMarch 2005Legal Academics is a beautifully crafted book, testifying to its own thesis that law is increasingly connecting with the intellectual mainstream (witness, in particular, the meticulous methodological comments in the first chapter of the book concerning culture and identity and the interaction between the two)...for readers (including law students) who wonder what it is like to be an academic lawyer, and whether academic lawyers actually like being academic lawyers (which, broadly speaking, they do), this book does exactly what it sets out to do and tells it as it is.Roger BrownswordLaw Quarterly ReviewNovember 2004Cownie's book is a useful contribution to the small but growing body of research into the self-perceptions of professional identity of the members of different academics tribes.Legal Education DigestNovember 2004

About the Author

Fiona Cownie is a Professor of Law at the University of Keele.

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