ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the findings of the survey conducted in 1993/94, this survey being an updated version of one conducted in 1983/84. The present study has been expanded to cover Australian and Canadian (Common Law) universities. In each of the jurisdictions surveyed there exist parallel concerns about legal education and, of more direct interest, the role of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory within the law curriculum. In the United Kingdom to date, despite many reports on legal education, the status of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory remains precarious, as reflected in the evidence here presented. In the United Kingdom in 1973 a Jurisprudence course of at least one year in duration formed a compulsory part of the first-degree law syllabus in 21 of 28 respondent universities. Students are introduced to jurisprudential issues in their first year within the context of the substantive law of contract; in their penultimate year there is a core Jurisprudence course.
