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‘Love Law, Love Life’: Neoliberalism, Wellbeing and Gender in the Legal Profession—The Case of Law School

Richard Collier Professor, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK. The title of the paper is adapted from ‘Resilience and Wellbeing: Resources for the Legal Profession’, available at  www.qls.com.au/For_the_profession/Love_Law_Live_Life. See also in the UK Jonathan Rayner, ‘Staff Wellbeing: Fit For Purpose?’ Law Society Gazette, 2 September 2013. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference ‘Women and Change in Higher Education: Culture and Careers’, Durham University, UK, 1–2 April 2014. I would like to thank Kathryn Hollingsworth and Maggie O'Neill for discussion and comments on themes in this paper, and the Society of Legal Scholars and Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University, for funding an ongoing project on wellbeing in the legal profession. All websites accessed August 2014.
Pages 202-230 | Published online: 07 May 2015

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Margaret Thornton. (2016) Squeezing the life out of lawyers: legal practice in the market embrace. Griffith Law Review 25:4, pages 471-491.
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Kate Maclean. (2016) Sanity, “madness,” and the academy. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 60:2, pages 181-191.
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