Research Catalog

Title

Reorganisation and resistance : legal professions confront a changing world / edited by William L.F. Felstiner.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Felstiner, William L. F.

Description

x, 358 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The book charts the way demographic shifts have changed the work of lawyers, the way that the revenue from law practice has been re-distributed, and the extent to which barriers based on race, class, religion and gender have shrunk or shifted. It describes how some professions have been forced by government or co-regulation with government to reorganise. It also documents how others have not kept pace with transformations in the economy and where changes and challenges to legal education take centre stage while demographic shifts and institutional reorganisation are of much less importance."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Reorganization and resistance

Subject

• Practice of law
• Lawyers

Genre/Form

• Country surveys (form)
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Essays from the Working Group on the Comparative Study of Legal Professions, a body within the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Law.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reorganisation and resistance / William L.F. Felstiner -- The professional as policitical : English lawyers from the 1989 Green Papers through the Access to Justice Act 1999 / Richard L. Abel -- Fighting for survival : unification, differentiation, and representation of the French bar / Anne Boigeol and Laurent Willemez -- Judges and lawyers in the Netherlands : an overview from 19760 till 2000 / Fred J. Bruinsma -- Regulated deregulation : the case of the German legal profession / Ulrike Schultz -- The Australian legal profession : towards a national identity / Margaret Thornton -- A legal profession in transformation : the Korean experience / Dai-kwon Choi -- Lawyers in the late twentieth-century Latin America / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo -- Legal professionals aplenty, but no legal profession? Law and lawyers in contemporary Mexico / Héctor Fix-Fierro and Sergio López Aylloón -- Social mobility and hierarchical structure in Canadian law practice / Fion M. Kay and John Hagan -- From professional dominance to organisational dominance : professionalism, inequality, and social change among Chicago lawyers, 1975-1995 / Robert L. Nelson ... [et al.]

ISBN

• 9781841132464
• 1841132462

LCCN

^^2006279075

OCLC

• 70836830
• SCSB-10295754

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library