Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ferris, Graham; Fineman, Martha Albertson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume uses vulnerability theory to explore how the organisation of the teaching and research activities of universities impact the resilience of academics and also how these activities themselves are impacted by contemporary developments in universities and educational policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040127964
• Artikelnr.: 72289567

Autorenporträt

Graham Ferris is a retired Associate Professor who still teaches legal theory at Nottingham Trent University. He has published on property law, legal history, legal theory, ethics, and legal education. He has three adult children and hopes to continue research using vulnerability theory in the future. Martha Albertson Fineman is Robet W Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University. She is the Founding Director of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and recipient of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, she has received numerous awards for her interdisciplinary scholarship on vulnerability, dependency, care, and the legal regulation of intimacy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Vulnerability theory and higher education 2. Undermining
resilience: how the modern UK university manufactures heightened
vulnerability in legal academics and what is to be done 3. Rethinking the
neoliberal university: embracing vulnerability in English law schools? 4.
Vulnerability, the future of the criminal defence profession, and the
implications for teaching and learning 5. Vulnerability theory as a tool
against a banking model of legal education 6. The positive and negative
roles of grant funding as mechanisms for societal transformation and the
development of community resilience 7. The university's fragile role in
fostering societal resilience by facilitating the development of
community-engaged professionalism