Margaret Thornton,Towards the Uberisation of Legal Practice, 1 Law, Technology and Humans 46 (2019).

Francesca Bartlett

Margaret Thornton’s work has had a defining role in the landscape of socio-legal scholarship in Australia and across the common law world for the last generation. She has long critiqued the neo-liberal turn of our major institutions (especially in the academy and legal profession) with an emphasis on profit maximisation. She coined the term “Benchmark Male” to capture a prevailing notion of an “ideal worker” with supposed attributes often […]