This collection provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of legal profession scholarship and its potential future development by presenting an analysis of the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. The book was written by prominent and emerging international scholars in the field, with each contributor having been invited to select and analyse a work which has for them shed light on what the legal profession is and what it does. The chapters explore the effect that the chosen work has had upon legal profession scholarship as a whole, both within particular jurisdictions and internationally. Contributors also reflect upon the likely implications of the leading work on the future study of and application to the legal profession. They relate the works to recent and contemporary developments in law and access to justice, such as the rise of technology, impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and issues of funding, to highlight the interpretative value of such scholarship. Presenting an overview and introduction to the field of legal profession research, the collection will be required reading for researchers looking to study any aspect of the legal profession. It will also prove compelling for a wide variety of access to justice and justice system research projects. The book will also appeal to scholars interested in legal ethics.
Contributor List
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Legal Profession
DANIEL NEWMAN
1 Colouring, Highlights, and Pompadours: 25 Years From ‘Fragmenting Professionalism’ and Bleached-Out Lawyering
SWETHAA S. BALLAKRISHNEN
2 Toward a New Legal Common Sense
KATE GALLOWAY
3 Pierre Bourdieu’s The Logic of Practice: Understanding the Working Practices of Lawyers
JAMES THORNTON
4 The Replacement of the Legal Profession: Vilhelm Aubert’s Theory and Heritage in the Sociology of the Legal Profession
OLE HAMMERSLEV
5 ‘Two Versions of the American Dream’: Well-Being and Unhappiness in the Law School and Legal Profession: The Work of Lawrence Krieger and Kennon Sheldon
NEIL GRAFFIN
6 Behind Clerked Doors: A Ground Breaking Ethanography
DR ELAINE FREER
7 Are Poor People’s Lawyers Still in Transition? Assessing the Relevancy of Jack Katz’s Work Four Decades On
EMMA COOKE
8 (In)visible Legal Careers: Eliane Junqueira’s Kaleidoscopic View of Latin America
MARIA ADELAIDA CEBALLOS-BEDOYA
9 Four Decades of Future: Assessing Susskind’s Predictions for the Future of Legal Services
OLIVER WANNELL
10 Feminist Judging in the ‘Real World’: From Theory to Practice Through the Eyes of Judges
LUCY WELSH
11 A Story of a Globalist Palestinian Jurist
OSAYD I. AWAWDA, IHSSAN A. MADBOUH, HENDAM J. RJOUB, AND MAZAN M. ZARO
12 Criminal Defence Lawyers in England and Wales: Critiquing Criminal Practice
DANIEL NEWMAN
13 Gender and Commitment in the Legal Profession: Revisiting Sommerlad and Sanderson
DR DIANE ATHERTON-BLENKIRON
14 Judicial Independence in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Contemporary Spain (José J. Toharia)
STEFANIE LEMKE
15 Lawyers Who Want to Make the World a Better Place – Scheingold and Sarat’s Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering
ALEX BATESMITH
16 Studying Family Mediators in a Changing Justice System
RACHAEL BLAKEY
17 Beyond Critique: The Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Social-Change Litigation
JOHN BLISS
Afterword: Leading Works in the Legal Profession
DR JESS MANT
Index
Biography
Daniel Newman is Reader at Cardiff University.
