Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

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<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 hiera