ABSTRACT
The newer appraisal and cognitive theories of emotions have received mainstream acceptance within the scientific community. Broader socio-legal and critical legal approaches have made some headway in acknowledging the value of emotions and their inter-relationship with law, showing their potential for future inclusion and use within legal education. The Report itself identifies one of the four aims of higher education as “instruction in skills suitable to play a part in the general division of labour”. The growth of legal education in the post-war era largely mirrored the growth in higher education generally, with Wilson reporting a total of twenty-three university law schools offering full degrees in 1965, including seventeen in England, one in Wales, one in Northern Ireland and four in Scotland. The origins of neo-liberalism in the United Kingdom stem from the New Right form of Conservatism which became dominant within the party in the late 1970s and formed the mainstay of Thatcherism.
