Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies by Richard L. Abel (Editor); Ole Hammerslev (Editor); Hilary Sommerlad (Editor); Ulrike Schultz (Editor)Call Number: K115 .L399 2020
ISBN: 9781509915149
Publication Date: Oxford ; New York : Hart, 2020-
Contents: Volume 1 National reports
Volume 1: National Reports. Lawyers in a new geopolitical conjuncture: continuity and change / Hilary Sommerlad and Ole Hammerslev -- Australia: a legal profession globalised and magnified / Margaret Thornton and Asmi Wood -- Canada: continuity and change in a modern legal profession / Ronit Dinovitzer and Meghan Dawe -- England and Wales: a legal profession in the vanguard of professional transformation? / Hilary Sommerlad, Andrew Francis, Joan Loughrey and Steven Vaughan -- Scotland: caught between nationalism and the market: what does the future hold for Scots lawyers? / Alan Paterson and Peter Robson -- United States: out of many legal professions, one? / Scott L Cummings, Carroll S Seron, Ann Southworth, Rebecca L Sandefur, Steven A Boutcher and Anna Raup-Kounovsky -- Belgium: a law degree opens the door to a lot of occupations, even the bar / Steven Givens, Bernard Hubeau, Stefan Rutten, Jean Van Houtte and Margot Van Leuvenhaege -- Denmark, Sweden and Norway: liberalisation, differentiation and the emergence of a legal services market / Ole Hammerslev -- France: the reconfiguration of a profession / Christian Bessy and Benoit Bastard -- Germany: resistance and reactions to demands of modernisation / Matthias Kilian and Ulrike Schultz -- Italy: a delicate balance between maintenance and change / Evelyn Micelotta and Gabrielle Dorian -- Netherlands: developments and challenges / Nienke Doornbos and Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen -- Switzerland: the end of prosperity in the age of globalisations? / Isabel Boni-Le Goff, Eléonore Lépinard, Grégoire Mallard and Nicky Le Feuvre -- Czech Republic: legal professions looking for serenity and stability / Jan Kober -- Poland: opening the legal professions / Kaja Gadowska -- Russia: challenges of the market and boundary work / Ekaterina Moiseeva and Timur Bocharov -- Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: challenges of liberalisation and democratic consolidation / Danilo Vuković, Valerija Dabetić and Samir Forić -- Argentina: the long transition of the legal profession / Martin Böhmer -- Brazil: fragmentary development, democratisation, and globalisation / Maria da Gloria Bonelli and Pedro Fortes -- Chile: lawyers engage with the market, specialisation, and rights / Christián Villalonga -- Mexico: significant growth and under-regulation of the legal profession / Luis Fernando Perez-Hurtado -- Venezuela: a despatch from the abyss / Manual Gómez and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo -- Burundi: middlemen and opponents in the shadow of the ethno-state / Sara Dezalay -- Kenya: between globalisation and constitutionalism / Winifred Kamau -- Nigeria: an account of adaptation / Enibokun Uzebu-Imarhiagbe -- South Africa: a profession in transformation / Jonathan Klaaren -- Zimbabwe: legal practitioners, politics and transformation since 1980 / George H Karekwaivanane -- Egypt: the long decline of the legal profession / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron and Menna Omar -- Iran: a clash of two legal cultures? / Reza Banakar and Keyvan Ziaee -- Israel: numbers, make-up and modes of practice / Eyal Katvan, Limor Zer-Gutman and Neta Ziv -- Libya: lawyers between ideology and the market / Jessica Carlisle -- Palestine: lawyering between colonisation and the struggle for professional independence / Mutaz M Qafisheh -- Tunisia: a political profession? / Eric Gobe -- Turkey: emergence and development of the legal profession / Seda Kalem -- China: a tale of four decades / Sida Liu -- India: present and future: a revised sociological portrait / Swethaa S Ballakrishnen -- Indonesia: professionals, brokers and fixers / Santy Kouwagam and Adriaan Bedner -- Japan: towards stratification, diversification and specialisation / Masayuki Murayama -- Myanmar: law as a desirable and dangerous profession / Melissa Crouch -- South Korea: reshaping the legal profession / Jae Won Kim -- Taiwan and Hong Kong: localisation and politicisation / Ching-Fang Hsu -- Thailand: the evolution of law, the legal profession and political authority / Frank W Munger -- Vietnam: from cadres to a 'managed' profession / Pip Nicholson and Do Hai Ha -- Comparative sociology of lawyers, 1988-2018: the professional project / Richard L Abel