It Now Exists”
The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12176209 |
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| Authors | Javier Wilenmann (0000-0003-4237-3537, Adolfo Ibáñez University, corresponding author), Diego Gil (0000-0002-1614-8099, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Samuel Tschorne (0000-0002-8749-5645, Adolfo Ibáñez University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 971-998 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Social Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-6546 • E-ISSN: 1747-4469 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lsi.2022.56 |
| OpenAlex | W4308147681 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
This article analyzes the processes shaping the emergence of a professionalized legal academia in Chile. Through a case study informed by quantitative and qualitative evidence, the study shows that the control and orientation of a professional school is a contested space, where the interactions between the profession, the market, and the state shape the trajectory of the legal education field. The article argues that the neoliberal remaking of higher education of the 1980s created a regime that increasingly relies on performance indicators modeled on the paradigm of the research university, which have been used as an opportunity by law schools seeking elite status to increase their academic reputation through the formation of bodies of full-time legal scholars. This new institutional environment has produced, however, an important degree of malaise among the new professional legal academics, the majority of whom resent that their research is increasingly swayed by the standards imposed by governmental or university-wide bureaucratic structures rather than by the needs of legal practice
Bureaucracy · Elite · Field (mathematics · Legal Education · Legal profession · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reputation · Sociology · State (computer science · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Systems and Institutions · Public Administration
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Dwindling Professional Authority
Speaking of Universities
Legal Education There and Here
The Law and Society Movement
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Law and Development Memoirs I
Covert Political Conflict in Organizations
Social Structure and Anomie
The Sociology of the Deviant Act
A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements
Framing the Field of Law's Disciplinary Encounters
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The Civil Law Tradition
Anomie and Strain
The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed
| Highly cited | No |
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