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1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: what good are lawyers? / Scott L. Cummings -- 2. Are lawyers friends of democracy? / Robert W. Gordon -- 3. 'The conscience of society?': The legal complex, religion, and the fates of political liberalism / Terence C. Halliday -- 4. More lawyers than people: the global multiplication of legal professionals / Marc Galanter -- 5. Faces of the tort pyramid: compensation, regulation, and the profession / John Nockleby -- 6. How and why do lawyers misbehave?: Lawyers, discipline, and collegial control / Lynn Mather -- 7. Aspects of professionalism: constructing the lawyer-client relationship / Philip Lewis -- 8. Professional regulation and public service: an unfinished agenda / Deborah L. Rhode -- 9. An innovative approach to legal education and the founding of the University of California, Irvine School of Law / Carrie Hempel and Carroll Seron -- 10. Without fear, favor or prejudice: judicial independence and the transformation of the judiciary in South Africa / Penelope Andrews -- 11. Lawyers in national policymaking / Ann Southworth, Anthony Paik and John Heinz -- 12. Cause lawyers and other signs of progress: three Thai narratives / Frank Munger -- 13. African youth mobilize against garbage: economic and social rights advocacy and the practice of democracy / Lucie White -- 14. Epilogue: just law? / Richard L. Abel. |
| Summary |
"This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Law -- Congresses.
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Law -- Congresses. |
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Sociological jurisprudence -- Congresses.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
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Practice of law -- Congresses.
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Practice of law. |
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Legal ethics -- Congresses.
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Legal ethics. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Cummings, Scott L., 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paradox of Professionalism. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011 9780521192682 (DLC) 2010045749 (OCoLC)678537212 |
| ISBN |
9781139077941 (electronic book) |
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1139077945 (electronic book) |
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9780511921506 (electronic book) |
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0511921500 (electronic book) |
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9781139080231 (e-book) |
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1139080237 |
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9781139080231 |
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9780521192682 |
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0521192684 |
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9780521145992 |
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0521145996 |
| Standard No. |
9786613110992 |
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