We quantify the returns to higher education for degree disciplines, namely 'professional' degrees, Medicine/Dentistry, Law, Accountancy and Psychology, within the UK from 2007 to 2015. We estimate the returns to education in the form of employment and wage premia associated with each subject. Our analysis contributes to the existing literature on…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of human resource development (HRD) for law firms in the UK. It examines how the characteristics of legal professional practice in the UK, including the partnership structure, long established methods of targeting solicitors and the law society, may act as barriers to the…

Given substantial evidence of sex discrimination in the legal profession and the role of attorneys and judges in perpetuating gender stereotypes, educators have an obligation to prepare female students for the challenges they will face, educate students of both sexes about the role of bias in litigation, and seek to mitigate the influence of…

The English educational revolution c.1560-1640 excited much interest in the 1960s and '70s. This paper seeks to show the relationship between the emergence of learned professions of church, law and medicine and that more general expansion in education. It shows how scholars have established the comparability of the ethos of these professions with…

The emergence of a new kind of legal practice, public interest law, is described. (KM)

The Uniform Probate Code, a significant instrument of legal reform, relies heavily on the involvement of law teachers to continue its progress. (HS)

Contemporary conditions relevant to the maintenance of occupational control are examined for five professions (accounting, architecture, civil engineering, law, and medicine) in the United Kingdom and the United States as an impetus for the analysis of control by occupations in general. (Author/CT)

This study applies a model of institutional socialization to the institution of college sport. Five variables were generated with reference to college sport as an agent of socialization and to the occupations of medicine, law, and business. The degree to which these five variables exist in the U.S. was investigated by means of a questionnaire…

Social, economic, and political trends are undermining claims to autonomy and monopoly by previously well-entrenched groups such as the legal profession in America. These trends include changes in the knowledge base, shifts in composition patterns, consumerism, and encroachment from allied professions. (Author/SSH)

The issues of corruption and distorted values are reaching deeply into our everyday lives. (Editor)

English legal education is examined in its professional context, with focus on the present rules governing the admission of solicitors and the call of barristers to the bar. (LBH)

The necessary prerequisites for Call to the Bar in England are identified, including successful completion of the two-part bar examination and membership in one of the four Inns of Court: Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn. The ceremony of dining at Gray's Inn is described. (LBH)

Data suggest that institutional socialization effects, specific to the professions of medicine, law and business, are not likely to result from participation in college sports. (GW)

Much theoretical work is being done in relational ethics, particularly the ethics of care. Models of human caring are also arising within the professions. This paper discusses feminist contributions to theories of caring, focusing on the shared premises, conflicts, and paradoxes faced by four professions (law, nursing, theology, and education),…