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An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US
legal profession. How do race, class, gender, and law school status
condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do
professionals then navigate these parameters? The Making of
Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last
two decades of the legal profession in the US, offering a
data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the
inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race, gender,
and class distinctions. Starting in 2000, the authors collected
over 10,000 survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers,
following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their
careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and
drew insights from their individual stories, contextualizing data
with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven
legal profession. Their findings show that lawyers’ careers both
reflect and reproduce inequalities within society writ large. They
also reveal how individuals exercise agency despite these
constraints.
An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US
legal profession. How do race, class, gender, and law school status
condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do
professionals then navigate these parameters? The Making of
Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last
two decades of the legal profession in the US, offering a
data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the
inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race, gender,
and class distinctions. Starting in 2000, the authors collected
over 10,000 survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers,
following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their
careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and
drew insights from their individual stories, contextualizing data
with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven
legal profession. Their findings show that lawyers’ careers both
reflect and reproduce inequalities within society writ large. They
also reveal how individuals exercise agency despite these
constraints.
Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals
routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the
freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's
physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to
scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level
courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson
reveals that women have borne the brunt of a dramatic
intensification since the mid-2000s of a decades-long practice of
denying divorce requests. This book takes the reader upstream to
the institutional sources of China's clampdown on divorce and
downstream to its devastating and highly gendered human toll,
showing how judges in an overburdened court system clear their
oppressive dockets at the expense of women's lawful rights and
interests. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in
Chinese courts, judicial decision-making, family law, gender
violence, and the limits and possibilities of the globalization of
law.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals
routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the
freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's
physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to
scrutinize cases covering 2009-2016 from all 252 basic-level courts
in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals
that women have borne the brunt of a dramatic intensification since
the mid-2000s of a decades-long practice of denying divorce
requests. This book takes the reader upstream to the institutional
sources of China's clampdown on divorce and downstream to its
devastating and highly gendered human toll, showing how judges in
an overburdened court system clear their oppressive dockets at the
expense of women's lawful rights and interests. This book is a
must-read for anyone interested in Chinese courts, judicial
decision-making, family law, gender violence, and the limits and
possibilities of the globalization of law.This title is also
available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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