Editorial Preface
| Author | Simon Roberts |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1991.tb01849.x |
| Published date | 01 November 1991 |
| Date | 01 November 1991 |
Editorial Preface
The members of the Editorial Committee wish
to
thank their colleague Judith
Freedman and Michael Power of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the
LSE very warmly for editing this Special Issue of The Modern Law Review. Their
achievement represents a considerable and exciting innovation, which their modesty
in linking
Law
and
Accountancy
to
the aspirations of the Review’s founders must
not be allowed to conceal. This is the first occasion on which the Review has brought
together lawyers and members of an adjacent discipline for a sustained discussion
of
their mutual interests.
If
the choice
of
accountancy for this experiment comes as a surprise,
it
should
not have done
so.
We read here of two established professional groupings,
with
significantly different cultures, operating in a world which increasingly demands
that their respective skills be deployed together under conditions for which presently
agreed professional boundaries may be ill-suited. Looking forward, the issue seems
less a matter of how existing boundaries will be re-marked, more a question of
whether accountants and lawyers
will
remain discrete professional groups, and of
what sort of people will assume leadership of necessarily inter-disciplinary teams.
Freedman and Power, and their contributors, have laid the ground-work for a
long
and profitable conversation.
Simon
Roberts
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