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9 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro9 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial AVROM SHERR This issue of the Journal provides three fascinating perspectives on the world of the legal profession and legal education. Andrew Francis provides one of the first studies on the Institute of Legal Executives which took over from the Solicitors' Managing Clerks' Association in 1963 in England and Wales. Francis considers the concept of legal professionalism in relation to this para-profession which has so much been subordinated under that of English solicitors. Francis charts how the Institute of Legal Executives has both challenged the demarcation of the dominant group while invoking exclusionary and closure strategies to support their own professional project. It presents an important insight into an unstudied group and also into fragmenting conceptions of professionalism. Robert Rosen considers the law students who move away from law and become managers of public and private businesses. In the United States he suggests that between fifty and sixty percent of entering students do not intend to practice law. Many go on to run businesses. Rosen considers whether the law degree is in fact useful for non-legal careers. He finds that the symbolic capital of a law degree was itself important. But some legal practice skills might not be so useful in the business environment. Some suggestions are made for other areas of skills study which might be useful for both law and non law jobs. He considers the concept of ''practical legalism as a focus for future study. Menachem Mautner portrays the discordance between the classic form of legal scholar and those populating the more multicultural institutions that law schools have become. He considers the benefits of this diversity and its effects on the law school. He suggests an attitude of hermeneutic self-constitution in which more dialogue will occur between the different law school groupings. ISSN 0969-5958 print/ISSN 1469-9257 online/02/010003-01 © 2002 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: 10.1080/096959503200004992B

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