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This is the second volume of a landmark publication in global socio-legal studies of the legal profession by leading experts in the field.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
1. Studying Lawyers Comparatively in the 21st Century: Issues in Method and Methodology
Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK) and Ole Hammerslev (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)


PART I
COMPARISONS: REGIONS, RELIGIONS, POLITICAL ECONOMIES
2. Evolution of Latin American Lawyers Over Three Decades: 1990–2020
Manuel A Gómez (Florida International University, US)
3. Africa’s Lawyers: From Imperial Agents to Legal Brokers in Global Markets
Sara Dezalay (Cardiff University, UK)
4. Lawyers in the Muslim World: Between Social Transformation, Judicial Control, and Feminisation
Mirjam Künkler (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Netherlands)
5. Post-Socialist Legal Professions: Jurisdictional Volatility, Changing Regulatory Logics and the Return of Guilds
Rafael Mrowczynski (Imre Kertész Center for Advanced Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)


PART II
DIVERSITY
6. Understanding Gender Inequality in the Legal Profession
Marta Choroszewicz (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Fiona Kay (Professor of Sociology, Queen’s University, Canada)
7. Men, Masculinities and the Legal Professions: Asking the ‘Man Question’
Richard Collier (Newcastle Law School, UK)
8. Race, Ethnicity and the Legal Profession
Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK), Angela Melville (College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Australia), Lisa Hanson (Wardiparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Research Group, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia) ), Sameer Ashar (University of California Irvine, US), Meera Deo (Southwestern Law School, US) and Marijke ter Voert (Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Netherlands)

PART III
PRODUCTION OF LAW AND LAWYERS
9. Still Special After All These Years? Fundamental Questions in Legal Services Regulation
Andrew Boon (City Law School, City, University of London, UK) and Noel Semple (University of Windsor, Canada)
10. When and Why Do Lawyer Organisations Seek to Influence Law?
Lynn Mather (University at Buffalo School of Law, US) and Leslie C Levin (University of Connecticut, US)
11. Globalisation and Education: Reconfigurations in Location, Scale, Form and Content
Ole Hammerslev (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
12. Paralegals and the Casualisation of Legal Labour Markets
Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK), Jeanne Hersant (School of Social Work, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile), Nina Holvast (School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), Luca Verzelloni (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal), Stefanie Gustafsson (School of Management, University of Bath, UK), Rebecca L Sandefur (Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics,

PART IV
LAWYERS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
13. Lawyers and Access to Justice
Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent, UK), Annette Olesen (Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark) and Rebecca L Sandefur (Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, US)
14. Cause Lawyering in Conflicted, Authoritarian and Transitional Societies: Politics, Professionalism and Gender
Anna Bryson (School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, UK), Kieran McEvoy (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) and Alex Batesmith (School of Law, University of Leeds, UK)
15. Advocates for Silenced Voices: How Human Rights Lawyers in Europe and Latin America Defend the Rule of Law
Stefanie Lemke (International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain)

PART V
MULTINATIONAL FIRMS
16. The Many Lives of Big Law: Three Decades in the Evolution of Large Law Firms
Manuel A Gómez (Florida International University, US) and Marc Galanter (University of Wisconsin Law School, US)
17. Globalisation, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China
David B Wilkins (Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, US), David M Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) and Bryon Fong (Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, US)
18. Lawyers and the European Union: The Rise of a Regulatory Bar in Brussels (1989–2019)
Lola Avril (Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Italy)


PART VI
SOCIOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS
19. Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions
Sida Liu (University of Toronto, Canada)
20. Accountants versus Lawyers: Comparing the Moneymen with the Monied (Gentle)men
Sundeep Aulakh (Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK)
21. The Mutation of Medical Professionalism
Mark Exworthy (School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK) and Simon Moralee (Alliance Manchester Business School, UK)
22. Legal Technology: The Great Disruption?
Julian Webb (Melbourne Law School, Australia)

PART VII
LAWYERS AND STATE PRODUCTION
23. State-Centred Comparison of Legal Professions in an Era of Globalisation
Frank W Munger (New York Law School, US)
24. Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History of the Internationalisation of National Legal Hierarchies
Yves Dezalay (Centre national de a recherche scientifique, France) and Bryant G Garth (University of California, Irvine, US)
25. Money Laundering, Corruption and the Legal Profession: An Exploration
Mike Levi (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK)

CONCLUSION
26. Comparative Sociology of Lawyers, 1988–2018: Governance, Regulation, Access to Justice, Political Engagement, Regime Change and the Rule of Law
Richard L Abel (University of California, Los Angeles, US)

About the Author

Richard L Abel is Michael J Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, USA.
Hilary Sommerlad is Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, UK.
Ole Hammerslev is Professor of Sociology of Law at the Lund University, Sweden.
Ulrike Schultz is Senior Academic at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany.

Reviews

It has been no mean achievement to have brought a global project of this scale to the point where these outstanding volumes amass so much original thought and material on modern legal professions … There is plenty here to inform and motivate future research on legal professions, and, within the parameters set by the editors, both volumes successfully meet their objectives.
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