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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7836 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Law: the search for community.(law education)
Author: Desmond Manderson
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 147(16)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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The present, as Zeno observed thousands of years ago, does not exist. It is a crossroads, a vanishing moment suspended between the familiarity of the past and the uncertainty of the future, between memory and hope, and given meaning only through its relationship to both (Derrida, 1976). While this makes the solidity of the here and now an illusion, it makes change possible and indeed inevitable. Postgraduate legal education in Australia today is likewise at a crossroads, pulled in different directions by the trajectory of the past and its expectations for the future. These tensions create not only problems for postgraduate legal education, but also possibilities.