Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>