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Author:   William Felstiner
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781841132464

ISBN 10:   1841132462
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   19 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Reorganization and Resistance. William L. F. Felstiner Europe 2 England. The Professional as Political: English Lawyers from the 1989 Green Papers through the Access to Justice Act 1999. Richard L. Abel 3 France. Fighting for Monopoly: Unification,Differentiation and Representation of the French Bar. Anne Boigeol and Laurent Willemez 4 The Netherlands. Judges and Lawyers in the NetherlandsAn Overview from 1970 till 2000. Fred J. Bruinsma 5 Germany. Regulated Deregulation The Case of the German Legal Profession. Ulrike Schultz Asia 6 Australia. The Australian Legal Profession: Towards a National Identity. Margaret Thornton 7 Korea. A Legal Profession in Transformation: the Korean Experience. Dai-kwon Choi Latin America 8 Latin America. Lawyers in Late 20th Century Latin America. Rogelio Prez-Perdomo 9 Mexico. Legal Professionals Aplenty, But No Legal Profession? Law and Lawyers in Contemporary Mexico. Hctor Fix-Fierro and Sergio Lpez Aylln North America 10 Canada. Social Mobility and Hierarchical Structure in Canadian Law Practice. Fiona M. Kay and John Hagan 11 United States. From Professional Dominance to Organizational Dominance: Professionalism, Inequality, and Social Change among Chicago Lawyers, 1975-1995. Robert L. Nelson and Rebecca l. Sandefur with John P. Heinz and Edward O. Laumman

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One of the strengths of this collection is the way in which it highlights the complexity, and to a degree also the cultural specificity, of the modern professional environment...this collection contains a number of useful and impressivesurveys of recent developments in the legal professions, largely written by leaders in the field.Julian WebbLegal StudiesVol. 27, No. 3, September 2007An interesting work on the sociological aspects of lawThe Commonwealth Lawyer, Vol 15, No 2August 06

One of the strengths of this collection is the way in which it highlights the complexity, and to a degree also the cultural specificity, of the modern professional environment...this collection contains a number of useful and impressive surveys of recent developments in the legal professions, largely written by leaders in the field. Julian Webb Legal Studies Vol. 27, No. 3, September 2007 An interesting work on the sociological aspects of law... The Commonwealth Lawyer, Vol 15, No 2 August 06

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William L F Felstiner is Honorary Professor of Law at Cardiff University.

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