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Rethinking the Legal Profession: New Trajectories in Contemporary Society book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking the Legal Profession New Trajectories in Contemporary Society

Edited By Salvatore Caserta, Nicholas Haagensen, Mikael Rask Madsen Copyright 2027
198 Pages
by Routledge

This book takes stock of the evolving landscape of legal professionals in contemporary society. It provides a framework with which to understand how contextual changes—economic, technological and political—shape the professional spaces, trajectories and projects relevant to legal professionals. At the same time, it is these same contextual pressures that engender opportunities for legal activity,... Read more

Introduction: New professional spaces and trajectories: tracing the evolution of legal professionals

Salvatore Caserta, Nicholas Haagensen and Mikael Rask Madsen

 

1. Why do lawyers attack the rule of law? Trajectories of “Trump lawyers”

Scott L. Cummings

 

2. The widening occupational space of jurists: differentiation and stratification of Danish jurists (1974–2019)

Nicholas Haagensen, Mikael Rask Madsen, Lasse Folke Henriksen and Salvatore Caserta

 

3. Change, continuity and crisis in the legal profession: the role of gender 

Pete Sanderson and Hilary Sommerlad

 

4. Trajectories of legal work in the context of machine learning AI: conceptualising mediated evolution

James Faulconbridge

 

5. “Only they can stare at the sun”? French supreme courts lawyers, a legal elite in the supreme courts space

Liora Israël

 

6. “Democratizing punishment”? Federal prosecutors’ new anticorruption project and the Brazilian penal field

Eduardo Cornelius

 

7. “Have we lost a part of our soul … [to] the result on the bottom line”? Reconfiguring professional spaces and the development of lawyers’ pro bono work as a professional project in Denmark

Ole Hammerslev

Biography

Salvatore Caserta is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law and International Law at iCourts, the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance at the University of Copenhagen. A socio-legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his research explores the authority and societal impact of international courts and organizations, democratic governance, the rule of law, and the evolution of the legal profession.

Nicholas Haagensen is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law at iCourts, the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the role of legal actors and legal expertise in international politics, international criminal justice, globalization and financial capitalism as well as the evolution of the legal profession.

Mikael Rask Madsen is a Professor of European Law and Integration, and the founder and director of iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen. Trained as both a lawyer and sociologists, his research focuses on international law and institutions, the evolution of the legal profession, judicial institutions, and the transformation of the state.

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