Free Hands and Minds

1. Introduction
History and Legal Education
Brett, Tay and Sawer
Why Brett, Tay and Sawer?
Feminism and Life History
Concluding Remarks
2. Australian Legal Academics: A Short Intellectual History
Introduction
Law Professors and the Case for University Legal Education
Tradition and Change - Founding an Australian Intellectual Tradition
A Period of Change: 1950-2000
Conclusion

PART A
PETER BRETT
3. Brett and the Americanisation of Australian Law Schools
Introduction
Brett and the Melbourne Law School
The Makings of a 'Liberal Humane Scholar'
A Legal Process SJD
Taking Legal Process Seriously
Reception
Concluding Remarks
4. The First Theory for Teaching Australian Criminal Law
Introduction
Brett and Waller
Legal Process in the Australian Classroom
Brett and the Australian Judiciary
Reception
Intellectual and Practical Obstacles
Student Impressions
Fracturing the Teaching Team
Concluding Remarks
5. One of Australia's 'Pillars of Justice'?
Introduction
Orr
Tait, Beamish, Ratten
A Mixed Reception
Concluding Remarks
6. A Professor of Jurisprudence
The Last Professor of Jurisprudence at Melbourne
'The Most Urgent Contemporary Task'
Conclusion - Peter Brett

PART B
ALICE ERH-SOON TAY
7. Morality and the Legal Academy
Introduction
The Makings of an Academic Warrior
An Open Mind - John Anderson
Possession
The Sociological Tradition
The Australian Legal Academy
Concluding Remarks
8. Tay and the Department of Jurisprudence: Reigniting Hostilities
Introduction
Reigniting Decades of Division
Origins of the Division
Tay's Appointment
9. Tay and the Department of Jurisprudence: Stone's Successor
Introduction
Tay's Credentials
Tay and Stone - Different Sociological Traditions
A 'Beachhead' for Jurisprudence
The Antidote
New Protagonists
Concluding Remarks
10. Tay and the Department of Jurisprudence: An Academic Entrepreneur
Introduction
The Rise of an Academic Entrepreneur
Motivating Principles
The Heart of the Department
Concluding Remarks
11. Critic of Australia's Legal Academy
Introduction
Critique of Australian Legal Education and Scholarship
Feminist Legal Scholarship
Conservative or Liberal?
Limiting Tay's Legacy
Conclusion - Alice Erh-Soon Tay

PART C
GEOFFREY SAWER
12. Politics, Law and Society
Introduction
University Life and Politics
Traditional Underpinnings
Concluding Remarks
13. A Case Against Law's Autonomy
Introduction
A Smorgasbord of Legal Theory
Sawer's Constructive Legal Realism
A Response to the Realist Dilemma
Bank Nationalisation
Australian Federal Politics and Law
Strengthening the Doctrine of Precedent
'We're All Socio-Legal Now' (and Always Have Been)
A Middle Ground
Concluding Remarks
14. Sawer and the Research School of Social Sciences
Introduction
Sawer's Appointment to a World-class Australian University
The Department of Law
Early Ambitions
Dean of the RSSS
Entrepreneurial Qualities
Strengthening International Networks
Recruitment
Doctoral Students
Concluding Remarks
15. Sawer and the Future of Australian Academic Law
The Path Not Taken
What Might Have Been
What Occurred
16. Conclusion
Learning Lessons
Lives and Careers
Local Conditions
The Heart of Australian Law Schools
Law Schools and Society