The new law schools say they are a sort of counterweight to the views that dominate the legal academy.

Not evenly divided, to be sure, given the liberal bent of the legal academy, but the split is deep and troubling.

Worked in the military legal academy of the Soviet Army.

The role of the legal academy presents a significant "cultural" difference between common law (connotation 2) and civil law jurisdictions.

The Journal has played an influential role in the courts and the legal academy.

The upshot is that the legal academy has become much less influential.

In the American legal academy its influence and prominence seems to have waned in recent years.

The more you look at a law school's ledgers, the more life in the legal academy seems a sweet deal.

One particular topic of discussion was the sometimes difficult relationship between scholarly traditions in the social sciences and in the legal academy.

"The lopsided vote does not detract from the wisdom or judgment of the legal academy in pressing the case," he said.