Michael Coper Roundtable: What do non-academic lawyers think of legal scholarship - how do they use and evaluate it?

DATE: Tuesday, 15 August 2023 at 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm

  In person, AAL Fellows only

LOCATION: High Court of Australia, Canberra ACT

This roundtable will discuss how the AAL understands and evaluates the contribution of legal scholarship, considering the following questions:

What impact does legal scholarship have, and how do we know?

Is the number of citations a useful measure of the worth of legal scholarship or are there other ways to measure it?

Speaker: Professor Benedict Sheehy FAAL, Professor of Law, University of Canberra.

Discussants - Professor John McMillan AO FAAL and Peter Walmsley FAAL

Chair: Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley FAAL 

A link to the flyer is available here.