1st Edition

Leading Works on the Legal Profession

276 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

276 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

276 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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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... Read more

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