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University of Wollongong\n\nThe Honourable Sir Anthony Mason,AC,KBE,Chief Justice of Australia  \nthirdly,the study in depth of an academic discipline.  \nThe establishment ofaFaculty of Law marks a notable advancein the life of any university.Even in the distant days when auniversity was a community of scholars,law occupied a prominentpart in the curriculum of the great universities-and that traditiondates back a verylong way.Bur there was a difference between thestudy of law as an intellectual discipline and the study of law as asubject of professional practice.Instruction in law as a subject ofprofessional practice was undertaken,to a substancial extent,byinstitutions outside the universities such as the Inns of Court inEngland and the Admission Boards in New South Wales,tomention well-known examples.  \nI doubt that all the rhetoricin the past about the importance ofproviding law students with the benefits of a broad and liberaleducation has been matched by the results achieved.The NewSouth Wales legal profession is noted for its specialised technicalcompetence rather that for its contribution to the development ofthe law or for its constructive capacity to mould the law to theneeds of society in association with other disciplines.Mind you,technical and professional competence is what you expect aboveall else from a practising lawyer but the community is,I think,entitled to expect something more from the profession.Unfortu-nately,the practice of the law has tended to contract the horizonsof many professional lawyers.Professional practice is demandingand can become all consuming.  \nOver many years that picture has changed.Universities,castingaside their character as communities of scholars,became tertiaryinscicutions offering,amongstother things,courses in professionaldisciplines.Of these disciplines,law,by virtue of its historicuniversity association,has been pre-eminent.Its continuing pre-eminence,so the cynics say,is due to the fact that a law school isnot nearly as costly to establish and administer as a school ofmedicine or a school ofengineering.Without takingissuewith thecynics,one can say that the elevation of law as a professionaldiscipline to the level of academic study was a recognition of theever-increasing complexity of thelaw and its expansion into everyaspect of community life.In addicion,it enhanced the status oflawyers.It played a part in banishing from the legal stage suchcccentric personalities as Serjeant Buzfuzz and the attorneys whoinhabited Bleak House.  \nThe emergence of the national megafirms of solicitors hasstrengthened this tendency.The emphasis on billable hours andthe setting of individual targets in terms of billable hours isscarcely calculated to encourage meditation on issues not chargeable to a clientIndeed,it is an approach that threatens totransform what was a profession into something that more closelyresembles a business.Thelaw schools must resist the temptationto become business schools,deferring to the demands of largecommercial practices and ignoring consideration of intellectuallydemanding questions posed by the traditional subjects as well asthe larger and enduring jurisprudential issues relating both to thestructure of legal systems and to the law's role in society.  \nFor very manyyears-for as long as I can remember-debate haswaxed and waned about thecontentand purpose ofacademiclegaleducation.Generally it has been considered chat a universiryshould aim to equip its law graduates with a broad and libcraleducation rather than concentrate on a narrow technical compe-tence.With this end in view,combined degree courses have beenencouraged,on the footing that other degree courses will providean elementof broad and liberaleducation.How a moderncconom-ics course achieves this object I do not know.Be that as it may,reliance on another degree course as a means of providing thebroad and liberal components of a tertiary education seems tocntail a 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