Reorganization and Resistance
Legal Professions Confront a Changing World
- 368 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
'Reorganization and Resistance' analyses the ways in which the legal professions of nine countries (England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Korea) and one continent (South America) have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheavals of the past twenty years. It documents how change and resistance are inextricably tied together in an oppositional tension where the greater weight shifts gradually from one to the other, even shifts backwards at times, but in the long view runs in the direction of change. The most obvious instance almost everywhere is the struggle of women in legal professions where improvement is undeniable even as resistance is varied and stiff. The book charts the way demographic shifts have changed the work of lawyers, the way that the revenue from law practice has been re-distributed, and the extent to which barriers based on race, class, religion and gender have shrunk or shifted. It describes how some professions have been forced by government or co-regulation with government to reorganize. It also documents how others have not kept pace with transformations in the economy and changes and challenges to legal education take center stage while demographic shifts and institutional reorganization are of much less importance.
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Table of contents
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Title verso
- List of Contributors
- Contents
- 1. Reorganisation and Resistance
- 2. The Professional as Political: English Lawyers from the 1989 Green Papers Through the Access to Justice Act 1999
- 3. Fighting for Survival: Unification, Differentiation and Representation of the French Bar
- 4. Judges and Lawyers in the Netherlands-An Overview from 1970 til 2000
- 5. Regulated Deregulation: The Case of the German Legal Profession
- 6. The Australian Legal Profession: Towards a National Identity
- 7. A Legal Profession in Transformation: The Korean Experience
- 8. Lawyers in Late Twentieth-Century Latin America
- 9. Legal Professionals Aplenty, But No Legal Profession? Law and Lawyers in Contemporary Mexico
- 10. Social Mobility and Hierarchical Structure in Canadian Law Practice
- 11. From Professional Dominance to Organisational Dominance: Profesionalism, Inequality, and Social Change Among Chicago Lawyers, 1975 -1955
- Index