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Birks P , ‘The Academic and the Practitioner’ (Twenty-First FA Mann Lecture, Lincoln's Inn, 26 November 1997) 3.

Cook C Creyke R Geddes R Holloway I , Laying Down the Law (2nd ed, 2001) 29–30.

Birks , above n 1, 4.

Birks , above n 1, 4.

Blackstone W , Commentaries on the Laws of England (14th ed, 1803), 6.

Hepple B , ‘The Renewal of the Liberal Law Degree’ (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 470, 471.

Ibid 473.

For a history of such exhortations over the years, see Hepple , ibid, 473–5.

Ibid 475.

Weisbrot D , ‘Taking skills seriously: Reforming Australian Legal Education’ (2004) 29 Alternative Law Journal 266. Weisbrot notes that the emancipated convict turned merchant, Samuel Terry possessed the only copy of Blackstone's Commentaries in NSW and that he ‘cornered the market on legal knowledge’. I might add he also became the richest man ever in Australian history: Rubinstein W , The All-Time Australian 200 Rich List (2000), as extracted in The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 25 October 2004, 11.

Bottomley S Parker S , Law in Context (2nd ed, 1997) 4.

ACLEC First Report on Legal Education and Training, April 1997, para 2.4.

Hepple , above n 6, 482–4.

Le Brun M Johnstone R , The Quiet Revolution (1994) 26.

Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission, Australian Law Schools: A Discipline Assessment for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission, May 1987.

Samford C Wood D ‘“Theoretical Dimensions” of Legal Education — A Response to the Pearce Report’ (1988) 62 Australian Law Journal 32, 32–3.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Review of the Adversarial System of Litigation, Issues Paper 21 (1997) [5.19]; on other substantial recommendations, see also Weisbrot, above n 10.

Law Council of Australia, Blueprint for the Structure of the Legal Profession (1994).

Hepple , above n 6, 484.

Ibid 485 (many English universities are now offering four year law degrees).

I borrow this phrase from my colleague Professor Ross Grantham of the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.

By ‘pedagogicalism’, I mean the concentration on university teaching as a learning process. For a more detailed discussion of its development and consequences in law schools, see James N , ‘The Good Law Teacher: The Propagation of Pedagogicalism in Australian Legal Education’ (2004) 27 University of New South Wales Law Journal 147.

Blackstone , above n 5, 32.

Birks , above n 1, 18.

Hyams R Campbell S Evans A , Practical Legal Skills (2nd ed, 2004) 5.

Seven Australian university law schools conduct practical legal training courses with four others being more or less ‘independent’ of universities; see Council of Australian Deans Law (ed), Studying Law in Australia (2005, forthcoming).

Such as University of Queensland <www.law.uq.edu.au/pleat> and University of Newcastle <www.newcastle.edu.au/schoolo/law/centres/general.htm> both at 4 November 2004.