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Alliance “Capitalism” and Legal Education: An English Perspective

The analysis offered by Elizabeth Chambliss of developments in legal education provision in the US context is comprehensive instructive because of the critical perspective it provides on the multi-dimensional processes and effects of change currently under way, in particular as law schools increasingly collaborate with one another and their ‘clients’. In this response paper my intention is not to question the analysis offered by Chambliss. Instead I seek to compare the documented US developments in legal education with some recent changes in the English context. I then reflect on the shared conundrums that exist as a result of what I perhaps provocatively describe as the forms of alliance ‘capitalism’ that are emerging in and defining the challenges faced by legal education; ‘capitalism’ being used tentatively to refer to the questions that the motivations associated with the growing role of collaborations in the US and English contexts could raise.