A Full Day's Work: A Study of Australia's First Legal Scholarly Community‪.‬

I INTRODUCTION It is both tempting and convenient to use broad labels to explain the essence of a group of legal academics. Looking back on past generations, legal scholars and their scholarship are often caricatured in an effort to present an argument that we now exist in more enlightened times--'look how far we've come'--or to highlight that the ugly remnants of prior orthodoxy have, despite best efforts, persisted. The unwitting victims in these stamping and labelling exercises are of course legal academics, with their varying abilities and interests either subsumed into general categories or explained as exceptions to the status quo.