The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged
as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30
years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can
in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives
about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to
disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices
by bringing together a range of international scholars writing
about legal ethics and the legal profession.
The book features significant and timely contributions which
take contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the current
and future shape of the legal profession. The essays not only
describe the rapidly changing profession but canvas different
approaches to scholarship on the legal profession. The collection
seeks to explore a diverse and contextualised profession from a
number of angles. Authors examine how the public sees lawyers and
how lawyers see their own profession; how we practise law and how
this practice shapes lawyers; how such cultural and professional
practice intersects with institutional structures of the law to
create certain legal outcomes; and how we regulate the legal
profession to modify or institute ethical practice.
The volume provides insights into legal culture and ethics from
the perspective of authors from Australia, Canada, England, the
United States, New Zealand and Kenya - a diversity of national
perspectives that give valuable insights into developments in the
profession at the local and global level. It also illustrates
diversity within the profession by tracing differing professional
career trajectories based on raced or gendered barriers,
alternative ethical strategies and the impact of organisational
cultures in which lawyers practice.
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