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Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies - Vol. 1: National Reports (Hardcover)
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Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies - Vol. 1: National Reports (Hardcover)
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The world's legal professions have undergone dramatic changes in
the 30 years since publication of the landmark three-volume Lawyers
in Society, which launched comparative sociological studies of
lawyers. This is the first of two volumes in which scholars from a
wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures document and
analyse those changes. The present volume presents reports on 46
countries, with broad coverage of North America, Western Europe,
Latin America, Asia, Australia, North Africa and the Middle East,
sub-Saharan Africa, and former communist countries. These national
reports address: the impact of globalisation and neoliberalism on
national legal professions (the relationship of lawyers and their
professional associations to the state and tensions between state
and citizenship); changes in lawyer demography (rapidly growing
numbers and the profession's efforts to retain control, the entry
of women and obstacles to full gender equality, ethnic diversity);
legal education (the proliferation of institutions and pedagogic
innovation); the regulation of lawyers; structures of production
(especially the growth of large firms and the impact of technology
and paraprofessionals); the distribution of lawyers across roles;
and access to justice (state-funded legal aid and pro-bono
services). The juxtaposition of the reports reveals the dramatic
transformations of professional rationales, labour markets, and
working practices and the multiple contingencies of the role of
lawyers in societies experiencing increasing juridification within
a new geopolitical order.
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