By Dr Edward Mussawir
Senior Lecturer
Griffith Law School
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Legal scholars today tend to be shaped in the mould of public intellectuals. Even if their research doesn’t necessarily generate ‘news’ as such, the expectation that their expertise should be directed to the heart of certain matters of public interest, certain ‘real world’ problems, certain shared societal challenges, is almost universal. A scholar who can neither make their own work newsworthy nor comment, from the point of view of their expertise, on matters that are in the public interest, faces a sort of existential crisis.
The stakes here are not trivial. One can wonder whether legal scholarship in general retains any use in legal expertise itself and whether either are capable of preserving a set of
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