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Epilogue
unequivocally academic in the best sense and that this includes an
emphasis on depth and breadth of vision, as well as intellectual
rigour; that legal scholarship should continue to diversify in respect
of subject-matter, perspectives and methods and for this to happen
it needs to stand on the shoulders of teaching; and that, finally, the
study of law should be reinstated as part of our general intellectual
culture and not be left to linger at the back of a few book shops.
Notes
1 Roland Barthes, "The Eiffel Tower" in Barthes: Selected Writings (ed. Susan
Sontag, 1983) at p. 236.
2 ibid. p. 237.
3 "Eiffel ... scrupulously lists all the future uses of the Tower: . .. aerodynamic
measurements, studies of the resistance of substances, physiology of the climber,
radio-electric research, problems of telecommunication, meteorological observations
etc. These uses are doubtless incontestable, but they seem quite ridiculous
alongside the overwhelming myth of the Tower, of the human meaning which
it has assumed throughout the world." (ibid, at p. 239).
4 ibid, at p. 244.
5 ibid, at p. 250.
6 Blackstone, Bentham and Austin all used the metaphor of providing a map of
the law.
7 Above, p. 115.
8 Above, Chap. 3, n. 9.
9 RE Chap. 1 and 11.
10 Becher at p. 30.
11 This has been a common experience of books in the "Law in Context" series,
such as Katherine O'Donovan's Sexual Divisions in Law (1985) and Ann Dummett
and Andrew Nicol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990), both of
which deserved to reach a wider audience.
12 e.g., G.R. Elton, F.W. Maitland (1985).
13 S. Collini, op. cit., Preface, n. 1.
14 Above Chap. 5.
15 See Philip Thomas, "The Poverty of Students", (1993) 27 The Law Teacher 152.
16 See above, at pp. 60-61.
17 Esther Johnson, op. cit. above Chap. 4 n. 37, reported that in 1993 all of the 29
law schools surveyed offered all core subjects, 11 made the post-Ormrod six
compulsory, and five more also required EC Law, which the Law Society had
recommended should be added to the list of core subjects.
18 "Preparing Lawyers for the Twenty-first Century", op. cit, Chap. 6, n. 39.
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