ABSTRACT
Perhaps jurisprudence has a moderately secure place in undergraduate law curricula in the UK at present—after much controversy and many local skirmishes in university law departments. In many single honours law programmes, jurisprudence is a compulsory subject; its curriculum status indicates that undergraduate legal education is officially considered incomplete without it. The jurisprudence teacher might be imagined as rummaging in a box of different knowledges, pulling out the shiniest items to catch the eye of students. The box is labelled 'law and other disciplines' or perhaps merely 'law and society'. It contains whatever has been put in it at various times by 'wandering jurists', who have come across intellectual objects they thought legally interesting. Jurisprudence teachers often add their own personally treasured items. Some objects in the box were found on travels to scholarly fields considered remote from local legal professional experience.
