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Reasons For The Tensions Between The Cultures Of Law School And Law Office, John Wade Nov 2011

Reasons For The Tensions Between The Cultures Of Law School And Law Office, John Wade

John Wade

This paper identifies a catalogue of reasons for tensions between two cultures, bracketed broadly under the heading of “formal university law school” and “professional legal practice”.1The paper suggests that some of these conflicts are remediable, some are inevitable and some are beneficial.


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An Old-Fashioned View Of The Nature Of Law, James Boyd White Jan 2011

An Old-Fashioned View Of The Nature Of Law, James Boyd White

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The law is a not an abstract system or scheme of rules, as we often speak of it, but an inherently unstable structure of thought and expression. It is built upon a distinct set of dynamic and dialogic tensions, which include: tensions between ordinary language and legal language; between legal language and the specialized discourses of other fields; between language itself and the mute world that lies beneath it; between opposing lawyers; between conflicting but justifiable ways of giving meaning to the rules and principles of law; between substantive and procedural lines of thought; between law and justice; between the …


Ambiguity And Tension, Jonathan P. Cockburn Jan 1982

Ambiguity And Tension, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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• Approximately two weeks after the opening of the 4th Biennale of Sydney (the Biennale opened on 07 April and ran until to 23 May 1982) it was noted by Jon Cockburn that a wall in the exhibition at the AGNSW was not being used (word going around the art community was that an exhibit had failed to arrive).

• On the 08 May 1982, Jon Cockburn (with the assistance of Jill Moonie, photographic documentation and Tammy Smith, Roxy [Pat McGuire], Kim Machin and Tim Harris as lookouts) entered the AGNSW and on the blank wall of 4th Biennale Exhibition …