Abstract
The literature (and data from other sources) confirm that over the past few decades, there has been a significant growth in the numbers of sessional (casual) staff employed in universities in Australia and other parts of the world. The increased casualisation has been across all universities, faculties and schools. Despite this growth there has been very little research undertaken to find out more about sessional academics. This paper concentrates on sessional academics in law schools in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific and attempts provide a ‘snapshot’ of sessional law academics by asking, ‘Who are our sessional teachers in law (practitioners or postgraduate students)?’ and, ‘How do they contribute to the legal education of our students and how much teaching do they do?’. Understanding more about our sessional teachers is an important first step in a process by which we might devise more appropriate training and support to ensure the quality of our law schools’ teaching and our students’ learning.
Disciplines
Law
Date of this Version
November 2010
Recommended Citation
Jill Cowley, "Being Casual about Our Teachers. Understanding More about Sessional Teachers in Law" (November 2010). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2010. Working Paper 48.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps10/art48
Comments
This paper may be referenced as [2010] UNSWLRS 48.