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Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories

Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories

Author: Professor Richard L. Abel; Professor Hilary Sommerlad; Professor Ole Hammerslev; Ulrike Schultz
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509931217
Published In: May 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent legal profession scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world. It does this by analysing data provided by the reports in its companion volume: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies Vol 1: National Reports (Hart 2020). Together these volumes build on the seminal collection Lawyers in Society (Abel and Lewis 1988a; 1988b; 1989). The period since 1988 has seen an acceleration and intensification of the global socio-economic, cultural and political developments that in the 1980s were challenging traditional professional forms. Together with the striking transformation of the world order as a result of the fall of the Soviet bloc, globalisation and the financialisation of capitalism, and technological innovations, these developments underscored the need for a new, comparative exploration of the legal professional field.

This volume deepens the insights in Volume 1; it includes chapters on legal professions in Africa, Latin America, the Islamic world, emerging economies, and former communist regimes and addresses comparative categories including state production, regional bodies and international courts, large law firms, access to justice, technology, casualisation, cause lawyering, diversity, corruption and ethics and regulation. Together with Volume 1, it will inform and challenge conceptions of the contemporary profession, and stimulate and support further research.

Preface

List of Contributors

1. Methodology

Ole Hammerslev and Hilary Sommerlad

Part I - Comparisons

2. Africa

Sara Dezalay

3. Islam

Mirjam Künkler

4. Post-Socialist Legal Professions: Jurisdictional Volatility, Changing Regulatory Logics and the Return of Guilds

Rafael Mrowczynski

5. Evolution of Latin American Lawyers over Three Decades: 1990-2020

Manuel A. Gómez

Part II - Multinational Firms

6. Globalisation, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China

David B Wilkins, David M. Trubek and Bryon Fong

7. Large Law Firms

Manuel A Gómez and Marc Galanter

8. Lawyers and the European Union: The Rise of a Regulatory Bar in Brussels, 1989-2019

Lola Avril

Part III - Lawyers and State Production

9. Comparative Sociology of Lawyers, 1988-2018: Legal Professions and the State

Richard L. Abel

10. Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History of the Internationalisation of National Legal Hierarchies

Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

11. State-Centred Comparison of Legal Professions in an Era of Globalisation

Frank W. Munger