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| The Legal History Enterprise at LaTrobe University Posted: 09 Dec 2013 10:01 AM PST Christopher L. Tomlins, University of California, Irvine, Law School, has published Law 'And', Law 'In', Law 'As': The Definition, Rejection and Recuperation of the Socio-Legal Enterprise at 29 Law In Context 137 (2013). The critical moment in socio-legal studies that flowered in the United States and elsewhere between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s coincided with the maturation of the Legal Studies Department at Melbourne's La Trobe University. During its two-decade span (1972-1994) La Trobe Legal Studies developed multidisciplinary critical and theoretical perspectives on law – as substance, as professional practice, as field of academic inquiry – to an extent and depth unrivalled in Australia or, with just a few exceptions, internationally. This essay charts the particular trajectory followed by one of those perspectives, legal history, both at La Trobe and in the wider world. |
Simultaneously, it offers a short history of the Department itself: of its growth during the 1970s and 1980s; of its transformation into a law school during the 1990s; and of the struggles to maintain a place for the social in the legal that occurred during that transformation.Download the article from SSRN at the link.
Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:28 AM PST
Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law and The Green Bag has published Feeding the Right Stuff: Would You Clerk for Learned Hand? at 3 Journal of Law 187 (2013).
Being a feeder judge (that is, a judge whose clerks routinely go on to clerk for a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) must be difficult. Hard at the start of the process and, alas, sometimes even harder at the end. While a number of forthright scholars and judges have described the challenges at the start, information about difficult endings is in shorter supply. But not nonexistent.Download the article from SSRN at the link.
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