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

Edited by: Professor Richard L. Abel, Professor Hilary Sommerlad, Professor Ole Hammerslev, Ulrike Schultz

ISBN13: 9781509931217
Published: May 2022
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £195.00



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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.

Subjects:
Law and Society
Contents:
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
12. Corruption
Michael Levi
Part IV - Production of Law and Lawyers
13. Rule of Law
Stephanie Lemke
14. Still Special After All These Years? Fundamental Questions in Legal Services Regulation
Andrew Boon and Noel Semple
15. When and Why Do Lawyer Organisations Seek to Influence Law?
Lynn Mather and Leslie C. Levin
16. Legal Education
Avrom Sherr
17. Paralegals and the Casualisation of Legal Labour Markets
Hilary Sommerlad, Tom Clarke, Stefanie Gustafson, Jeanne Hersant, Nina Holvast, Rebecca Sandefur and Luca Verzelloni
Part V - Sociology of Professions
18. Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions
Sida Liu
19. Lawyers and Accountants
Sundeep Aulakh
20. Lawyers and Doctors
Mark Exworthy and Simon Moralee
21. Cause Lawyering in Conflicted, Authoritarian and Transitional Societies: Politics, Professionalism and Gender
Anna Bryson, Kieran McEvoy and Alex Batesmith
22. Legal Technology: The Great Disruption?
Julian Webb
Part VI - Diversity
23. Understanding Gender Inequality in the Legal Profession
Marta Choroszewicz and Fiona Kay
24. Men, Masculinities and the Legal Profession: Asking the 'Man Question'
Richard Collier
25. Race, Ethnicity and the Legal Profession
Hilary Sommerlad, Sameer Ashar, Meera Deo, Marijke ter Voert, Angela Melville and Lisa Hanson
Part VII - Conclusion
26. Quo Vadis
Richard L. Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Ulrike Schultz and Hilary Sommerlad