(DOWNLOAD) "Down Under Exceptionalism. (Comparison of Legal Academics) (Australia)" by University of Queensland Law Journal # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Down Under Exceptionalism. (Comparison of Legal Academics) (Australia)
- Author : University of Queensland Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 274 KB
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Let me preface everything I am about to say by making it clear that I like my job as a law professor and I like the freedom it gives me to read and write about whatever catches my fancy. Having made that clear, in rest of this brief paper I want to try to convince the reader of three things as regards legal academics in Australia. Firstly, I will argue that their general, average situation--ignoring completely the issue of pay and allowing for the possibility that this generalisation may not apply to those at the most senior levels--is worse than it is for legal academics in Canada, the United States, and even Britain and New Zealand. In comparative terms, the Australian legal academic's working life involves more bureaucracy, is too preoccupied with seeking external research grants, and is likely to see him or her having to teach in front of bigger, indeed much bigger, class sizes. It is also overwhelmingly probable that a far greater proportion of law students in Australia will themselves be in full-time, or near full-time, employment while they undertake their full-time studies. Secondly, I will claim there are far too many law schools for the size of Australia's population. There are 32 law schools in Australia servicing a population of 21 or 22 million, some of them (like mine and Monash University Law School and Griffith University Law School and the University of Technology Sydney Law School and the law school at the Queensland University of Technology) taking in over 400 new students a year. (1) By contrast, English Canada has 16 law schools servicing an English-speaking population of some 26 or 27 million, with many of these law schools accepting only 150 to 180 new students each year and the biggest, Osgoode Hall Law School, only accepting 300 each year. (2)
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