Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000876536

Related ISBNs:

9781003179283, 9780367775247, 9781032016047

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/29/23

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Thomas Giddens

Edited by:

Luca Siliquini-Cinelli