Law Academics and Law Practitioners – A Comparison

Abstract

There are a number of reasons why a comparison between law academics and law practitioners in the context of the work of the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law is highly relevant in today’s tumultuous world. 
The first reason is that our laws are codes of conduct for survival. They are the largest and most comprehensive codes of conduct that we have. They are ideologies built up over centuries which are the essential foundation of our societies. Humanity and individuals could not now survive without them. Civilised laws are commonly drenched and saturated with a sense of morality, justice and efficiency, or should be. These mighty codes are necessary to stop the fighting, to civilise us, and to keep the peace.
Every sentence above is a platitude. Yet these simple platitudes have not got through to everybody. Indeed, they have hardly got through to anyone, except a vanishing minority.