The demise of diversity in legal education: Globalisation and the new knowledge economy

Just when it appeared that legal education was becoming more critical, more humane and more diverse, the ground beneath our feet began to move. The earth opened up and the positive developments of two decades or more began to slip and slide inexorably towards a gaping abyss. Our eþorts to intervene were of little avail. Some initiatives disappeared into the blackness and were never seen again. Others teetered on the edge. We tried to look but were overcome by vertigo. We fell into a stupor. Some of our colleagues had a dream in which a Midas-like ®gure appeared, crying out: ``The market is the way, the truth and the light. All who follow it faithfully and spread its message throughout the world shall experience eternal prosperity. Forsake all thought of justice and the life of the mind if thou hopest to partake of its rewards. And they did.