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Law as Engineering: Thinking about What Lawyers Do, by David Howarth. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, ix + 213 + (index and bibliography) 24pp (£20 paperback). ISBN: 978 0 85793 378 2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Steven Vaughan
Steven Vaughan*
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University of Birmingham
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Legal Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 353 - 358
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2014

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Notes

1. Howarth, D ‘Is law a humanity (or is it more like engineering)?’ (2004) 3(1) Arts & Human Higher Educ 9.Google Scholar

2. Howarth, D Law as Engineering: Thinking about What Lawyers Do (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2013) p vi.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. Ibid, p 51.

4. See http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9780857933775 (accessed 12 February 2014).

5. See Susskind, R The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008);Google Scholar Susskind, R Tomorrow's Lawyers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).Google Scholar

6. Howarth, above n 2, pp 29–32, 51.

7. Loughrey, J Corporate Lawyers and Corporate Governance (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

8. See http://www.sra.org.uk/sra/policy/training-for-tomorrow/work-streams.page (accessed 12 February 2014).

9. Howarth, above n 2, p 3.

10. Law Society ‘Factsheet: categories of work undertaken by solicitors 2010’ (London: Law Society, 2010); see http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/representation/research-trends/fact-sheets/documents/categories-of-work-undertaken-by-solicitors---2010/ (accessed 12 February 2014).

11. Howarth, above n 2, p 23.

12. Howarth, above n 2, p 24.

13. Howarth, above n 2, p 97. The first is the fall of Lehman Brothers and ‘Repo 105’; the second Goldman Sachs and ‘the big short’.

14. Howarth, above n 2, p 106.

15. Howarth, above n 2, p 108.

16. Howarth, above n 2, ch 4.

17. For this, see Loughrey, , above n 7, ch 7; or the specialist work ofGoogle Scholar Flenley, W and Leech, T Solicitors' Negligence and Liability (London: Bloomsbury Professional, 2012).Google Scholar

18. A recent piece by David Kershaw and Richard Moorhead is an instructive starting point: Kershaw, D and Moorhead, R ‘Consequential responsibility for client wrongs: Lehman Brothers and the regulation of the legal profession’ (2013) 76 Mod L Rev 26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

19. Howarth, above n 2, p 148.

20. Howarth, above n 2, p 153.

21. Ibid.

22. Ibid.

23. Howarth, above n 2, pp 158–161.

24. Howarth, above n 2, pp 170–171.

25. Howarth, above n 2, p 169.

26. Ibid.

27. ‘The world of the university, notwithstanding government efforts to the contrary, tends towards the self consciously impractical …’ – Howarth, above n 2, p 148.

28. Howarth, above n 2, p 172.

29. Howarth, above n 2, p 173.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Howarth, above n 2, pp 174–175.

33. Howarth, above n 2, ch 4 and p 181ff.