8 The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction: The Exchange University 1
7. The Academic Capitalist Knowledge/Learning Regime 19
8. Academic Culture and the Research-Intensive University: The Impact of Commercialism and Scientism 49
9. The New Production of Researchers 70
10. Public Policy in Ontario Higher Education: From Frost to Harris 90
11. How Fares Equity in an Era of Academic Capitalism? The Role of Contingent Faculty 105
12. Reclaiming Our Centre: Toward a Robust Defence of Academic Autonomy 125
13. “Gender at Work” in Teacher Education: History, Society, and Global Reform 147
14. The Political Economy of Legal Scholarship: A Case Study of the University of British Columbia Law School 168
15. Keeping the Commons in Academic Culture: Protecting the Knowledge Commons from the Enclosure of the Knowledge Economy 188
16. Conclusion 203
17. Contributors 211
18. Index 215