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satisfying multiple masters  \nMargaret Thornton Australian National University  \nUniversity law schools have been beset with a sense of schizophrenia ever since first established in the 19th century. They were  \nunsure as to whether they were free to teach and research in the same way as the humanities or whether they were constrained by the presuppositions of legal practice. More recently, this tension has been overshadowed by the impact of the neoliberal turn and disinvestment by the state in higher education. Ironically, as government has provided less money to universities, it has arrogated to itself increased control over teaching standards and research productivity. At the same time, the mastery of the legal profession continues to be exercised through the specification of 11 subjects required for admission to legal practice, known as the ‘Priestley 11’. Drawing on Foucault’s idea of the self as a kind of enterprise, it is argued that law students have also assumed an element of mastery over what is taught and how it is taught. It is suggested that all elements of mastery are imbricated with one another so as to reify enterprise and capital accumulation within the neoliberal economy.  \nKeywords: Universities, legal education, teaching, research, neoliberalism  \nIntroduction  \nEver since law schools were incorporated into universities in the 19th century, the discipline of law has been haunted by a sense of dystopia. While Roman law, legal history and jurisprudence had an ancient lineage within the great universities of Europe (Wieruszowski, 1966), the training of lawyers was regarded as the responsibility of the profession – through the Inns of Court in London and apprenticeships elsewhere. The establishment of university law schools set up a tension between the university and the legal profession. The debate concerning the establishment of Sydney Law School in the latter part of the 19th century, for example, lasted for more than 40 years (Martin, 1986; Chesterman & Weisbrot, 1987).  \nThe discipline of law is still somewhat schizophrenic about whether it should prioritise academic or professional norms (Webber, 2004). The deference by law schools to a set of professional presuppositions regarding the nature of legal knowledge distinguishes it from other social sciences and  \nhumanities disciplines that are more receptive to the plurality of knowledge and critique. This problem has been accentuated in Australia because of the close links between legal education and the legal profession (Chesterman & Weisbrot, 1987). While professional disciplines, such as engineering, accept predetermined epistemological standpoints, they do not  \nappear to be beset by the same degree ofangst as law.  \nThe hope of enlightened jurisprudes has long been that a balance between scholarship and practice might be effected, but such a balance maybe unattainable because of the inherent tension between the presuppositions underpinning applied legal knowledge and the academic critique of them. The metaphor of the pendulum maybe trite, but it captures a sense of the perennial movement between scholarship and practice. When the pendulum swings too close to scholarship, there is agitation from the practising profession for the injection of more applied knowledge into the curriculum, while a swing towards practice impels a plea for a more scholarly stance. Needless to say, the oscillation of the pendulum is inevitably affected by the play of politics and power at any particular  \nvol. 62, no. 2, 2020 The challenge for law schools of satisfying multiple masters Margaret Thornton 5  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \ntime, which engenders resentment on the part of those who feel that their power has been attenuated (Brown, 1995).  \nI suggest that a constellation of factors arising from the neoliberal turn has complicated the simple meta","cbCaipIJZrPArcIl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipIJZrPArcIl","pdf",179916,"English","# Introduction\n## Government as puppet master","[{\"question\":\"What core tension do university law schools struggle with historically?\",\"answer\":\"They remain uncertain whether to prioritize teaching and research in line with academic humanities or to conform to the presuppositions of legal practice.\"},{\"question\":\"How does neoliberalism affect law school governance in this discussion?\",\"answer\":\"Neoliberal disinvestment by the state is linked to increased state control over teaching standards and research productivity, shifting balance between universities and the legal profession.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the role of the “Priestley 11” mentioned in the article?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the 11 subjects required for admission to legal practice, shaping how curricula align with professional requirements.\"}]","A U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W - The challenge for law schools of satisfying multiple masters | PDF",1792080193,23]