Ivory towers and satanic mills: Choices for university law schools

Abstract

Whilst the proposition that there needs to be greater contact between industry and the professions and universities has become generally accepted, much still needs to be done to explore the possible consequences of such greater contact. The history of British university law schools, which have been described by Warnock as “vocational, but with strong academic content˚d, offers evidence of a closer contact between university and the professions than has traditionally been the case with most other university disciplines. However, through the century, university law schools have progressively sought to distance themselves from the legal professions, arguing that their academic role was incompatible with close contact. Recent funding cuts have led law schools to approach firms of solicitors for sponsorship but the experience of this sponsorship once again suggests that the university's role, seen in terms of a search for knowledge, and the pragmatic, short term interests of the professions are incompatible.

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