Description
Product ID: | 9780367775247 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education |
Authors: | Author: Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, Thomas Giddens |
Page Count: | 238 |
Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Anthropology, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational strategies and policy, Higher education, tertiary education, Politics and government, Jurisprudence and general issues, Legal systems: general, Land and real estate law / Real property law, Education law, Anthropology, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Politics & government, Jurisprudence & general issues, Legal system: general, Land & real estate law, Education & the law |
Description: | Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure, including: different ways in which law’s pedagogic structures might be incomplete, or are being fought against; the use of less conventional elements of cultural discourse to resist the abstraction of the lawyer in students’ subject formation; the centralisation of queer and feminist discourses to disrupt the hierarchies of the legal curriculum; the use of digital technologies; the place of embodiment in legal education settings; and the impacts of posthuman knowledges and contexts on legal learning. Assembling original, field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers, this book constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-30 |