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

Oxford : Hart Publishing, c2005.

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Sociological jurisprudence.

Lawyers.

Practice of law.

Law -- Political aspects.

1. Reorganisation and resistance / William L F Felstiner

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 survival: unification, differentiation and representation of the French Bar / Anne Biogeol and Laurent Willemez

4. The Netherlands. Judges and lawyers in the Netherlands: an overview from 1970 till 2000 / Fred J Bruinsma

5. Germany. Regulated deregulation: the case of the German legal profession / Ulrike Schultz

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

8. Latin America. Lawyers in the late twentieth-century Latin America / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo

9. Mexico. Legal professionals aplenty, but no legal profession? Law and lawyers in contemporary Mexico / Héctor Fix-Fierro and Sergio López Ayllón

10. Canada. Social mobility and hierarchical structure in Canadian law practice / Fiona M Kay and John Hagan

11. United States. From professional dominance to organisational 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 Laummann.

Reorganization and Resistance analyses the ways in which the legal professions of nine countries (England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Korea) and one continent (South America) have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheavals of the past twenty years.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781841132464

1841132462

358 p. ; 24 cm