Margaret Thornton is Professor of Law at the Australian National University. She is a graduate of Sydney, New South Wales and Yale Universities, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

• Chapter 1 The Political Economy of Higher Education; Chapter 2 The Market Comes to Law School; Chapter 3 Jettisoning the Critical; Chapter 4 Governance and Academic Life; Chapter 5 Research in the Corporatised University; Chapter 6 Conclusion;