Wes Pue's lawyers

This collection amply demonstrates the fruitfulness of Wes Pue's exploration of professionalism and professionalisation, legal education and the political roles of law and lawyers over the past thirty years. With his Oxford undergraduate degrees in geography and law, postgraduate legal qualific...

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Published inInternational journal of the legal profession Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 61 - 63
Main Author Prest, Wilfrid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.01.2017
Subjects
Law
Lawyers
Political aspects
Politics and government
CANADA
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ISSN0969-5958
1469-9257
DOI10.1080/09695958.2016.1226174

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Summary:This collection amply demonstrates the fruitfulness of Wes Pue's exploration of professionalism and professionalisation, legal education and the political roles of law and lawyers over the past thirty years. With his Oxford undergraduate degrees in geography and law, postgraduate legal qualifications from Alberta and York, and abiding interests in history, politics and social theory, Wes Pue embodies interdisciplinarity. Such intellectual span is most uncommon. According to W. K. (Sir Keith) Hancock, the greatest historian Australia has yet produced, 'span' ranks with 'attachment' and 'justice' as a defining attribute of first-class historical writing. By the same token, it would be impossible for anyone familiar with Pue's extensive body of scholarly publications to doubt his commitment to understanding his subject through close scrutiny of the sources, or his determination to resist easy answers which deal unjustly with those no longer able to defend their own actions and motives.
Bibliography:International Journal of the Legal Profession, Vol. 24, No. 1, Mar 2017, [61]-63
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ISSN:0969-5958
1469-9257
DOI:10.1080/09695958.2016.1226174