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Fear and Loathing in Legal Academia: Legal Academics' Perceptions of Their Field and Their Curious Imaginaries of How 'Outsiders' Perceive It

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AuthorNicolette Priaulx, Martin Weinel, Willow Leonard-Clarke, Thomas Hayes
Pages17-80
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This article concerns the question of how legal academics imagine ‘outsiders’ perceive
legal academia. Centralising our empirical work undertaken at a UK research
intensive University which explored the attitudes, beliefs and knowledges of non-
    
from benchmarking surveys with legal academics which invited self-evaluations
            
       
note the presence of a curious divergence between self-perceptions of legal academia
         
a review of the legal scholarly literature, our study reveals a persistently bleak
‘folklore’ surrounding the question of how ‘outsiders’ will regard legal academia –
        
   
        
work of this nature for better understanding legal academia and its relationship with
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            
opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. As we argue by reference to our


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Empirical study, Meta-disciplinary Analysis, Legal Academics, Cross-disciplinary
Attitudes, Insider Imaginaries
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         
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
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A. Perceptions of Legal Academia and the Importance of ‘Insider
Imaginaries’ .......................................................................................
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B. Portrayals of Legal Academia: Characterising Approaches to Legal
Research ..............................................................................................
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A. Methods and Research Approach ...................................................
        
Legal Academia and Insider Imaginaries: Points of Convergence and
Divergence .........................................................................................
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      

       

C. Bleak Legal Imaginaries ................................................................
 
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Fear and Loathing in Legal Academia: Legal Academics’ Perceptions of Their Field
and Their Curious Imaginaries of How ‘Outsiders’ Perceive It
    
Legal ...................................................................................................
F. Findings on Research Approaches ..................................................
       


         


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