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The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?
Author(s) -
BRADNEY ANTHONY,
COWNIE FIONA
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1467-6478
pISSN - 0263-323X
DOI - 10.1111/jols.12265
Subject(s) - professionalization , kingdom , proletarianization , position (finance) , proletariat , political science , period (music) , law , sociology , economics , paleontology , finance , politics , physics , acoustics , biology
This article analyses changes to United Kingdom (UK) university law schools during the period coinciding with Phil Thomas’ career as a law teacher – the latter part of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty‐first – in part illustrating the analysis with other examples from Thomas’ career. We will focus specifically on the way in which what it means to be a legal academic has altered, with UK legal academics having been professionalized as a community during this era. Yet, seemingly paradoxically, it is also an era during which, many have suggested, academics in UK universities have become a proletariat.