The Law School curriculum is under attack.
Client needs in industry and commerce seem to dictate the subject areas of commercial legal work.
Regulation affects the form and substance of that work and litigation is active between regulation and commercial need. In social security and welfare law, both subject area and substance are formed by governmental regulation on the back of socio-political and economic theory. Globalisation might affect both and all advance at an increasingly fast rate. The Law School curriculum is formed by slower processes. History and tradition have some effects.