1st Edition
Vulnerability and the Organisation of Academic Labour
Introduction
Graham Ferris and Martha Albertson Fineman
1. Vulnerability theory and higher education
Risa L. Lieberwitz
2. Undermining resilience: how the modern UK university manufactures heightened vulnerability in legal academics and what is to be done
Graham Ferris
3. Rethinking the neoliberal university: embracing vulnerability in English law schools?
Doug Morrison and Jessica Guth
4. Vulnerability, the future of the criminal defence profession, and the implications for teaching and learning
Nicola Harris, Roxanna Dehaghani and Daniel Newman
5. Vulnerability theory as a tool against a banking model of legal education
Fabrizia Serafim
6. The positive and negative roles of grant funding as mechanisms for societal transformation and the development of community resilience
M. Joan Wilson and W.R. Sexson
7. The university’s fragile role in fostering societal resilience by facilitating the development of community-engaged professionalism
W.R. Sexson and M.J. Wilson
Biography
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.
