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For several years legal professions across the world have, to
varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a
range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes
in regulation. In many jurisdictions the extent of these
transformations have led to a process of professional fragmentation
and generated uncertainty at institutional, organisational and
individual levels about the nature and future of legal
professionalism. As a result legal education is in flux in many of
jurisdictions including the United States, the UK and Australia,
with further effects in other Common Law and some Civil law
countries. The situation in the UK exemplifies the sense of
uncertainty and crisis, with a growing number of pathways into law;
an increasing surplus of law graduates to graduate entry positions
and most recently proposals for reform of legal education and
training by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This
collection addresses both current and historical approaches showing
that some problems which appear to be modern are endemic, that
there are still some important prospects for change and that policy
issues may be more important than the interests of lawyers and
educators. This makes this volume a source of interest to lawyers,
law students, academic and policy makers as well as the discerning
public. This book was previously published as a special issue of
the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
The topic of "too many lawyers" is both timely and timeless. The
future make up and performance of the legal profession is in
contest, challenged by new entrants, technology and the demand for
transparency; at the same time, lawyers long have participated in
contests over professional boundaries. In this book, we take up
several fundamental questions about the question of whether there
are "too many lawyers". What do we mean by "too many"? Is there a
surplus of lawyers? What sort of lawyers are and will be needed?
How best can we discern this? These questions and more are
addressed here in scholarly articles presented at the Onati
International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain) by some of
the best researchers in the field. The collection, witha chapter by
Prof. Richard L. Abel, addresses methodological, normative and
policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular
countries and worldwide, while connecting this phenomenon to
political, social, economic, historical, cultural and comparative
contexts. This book was previously published as a special issue of
the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
The topic of "too many lawyers" is both timely and timeless. The
future make up and performance of the legal profession is in
contest, challenged by new entrants, technology and the demand for
transparency; at the same time, lawyers long have participated in
contests over professional boundaries. In this book, we take up
several fundamental questions about the question of whether there
are "too many lawyers". What do we mean by "too many"? Is there a
surplus of lawyers? What sort of lawyers are and will be needed?
How best can we discern this? These questions and more are
addressed here in scholarly articles presented at the Onati
International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain) by some of
the best researchers in the field. The collection, witha chapter by
Prof. Richard L. Abel, addresses methodological, normative and
policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular
countries and worldwide, while connecting this phenomenon to
political, social, economic, historical, cultural and comparative
contexts. This book was previously published as a special issue of
the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
For several years legal professions across the world have, to
varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a
range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes
in regulation. In many jurisdictions the extent of these
transformations have led to a process of professional fragmentation
and generated uncertainty at institutional, organisational and
individual levels about the nature and future of legal
professionalism. As a result legal education is in flux in many of
jurisdictions including the United States, the UK and Australia,
with further effects in other Common Law and some Civil law
countries. The situation in the UK exemplifies the sense of
uncertainty and crisis, with a growing number of pathways into law;
an increasing surplus of law graduates to graduate entry positions
and most recently proposals for reform of legal education and
training by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). This
collection addresses both current and historical approaches showing
that some problems which appear to be modern are endemic, that
there are still some important prospects for change and that policy
issues may be more important than the interests of lawyers and
educators. This makes this volume a source of interest to lawyers,
law students, academic and policy makers as well as the discerning
public. This book was previously published as a special issue of
the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
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