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Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Studying Lawyers Comparatively in the 21st Century: Issues in Method and Methodology Hilary Sommerlad and Ole Hammerslev Part I - Comparisons -- 2. Africa Sara Dezalay -- 3. Islam Mirjam Kèunkler -- 4. Post-Socialist Legal Professions: Jurisdictional Volatility, Changing Regulatory Logics and the Return of Guilds Rafael Mrowczynski -- 5. Evolution of Latin American Lawyers over Three Decades: 1990-2020 Manuel A Gâomez Part II - Multinational Firms -- 6. Globalisation, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China David B Wilkins, David M Trubek and Bryon Fong -- 7. Large Law Firms Manuel A Gâomez and Marc Galanter -- 8. Lawyers and the European Union: The Rise of a Regulatory Bar in Brussels, 1989-2019 Lola Avril -- Part III - Lawyers and State Production -- 9. Comparative Sociology of Lawyers, 1988-2018: Legal Professions and the State Richard L Abel -- 10. Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History of the Internationalisation of National Legal Hierarchies Yves Dezalay and Bryant G Garth -- 11. State-Centred Comparison of Legal Professions in an Era of Globalisation Frank W Munger -- 12. Corruption Michael Levi Part I - Production of Law and Lawyers -- 13. Rule of Law Stephanie Lemke -- 14. Still Special After All These Years? Fundamental Questions in Legal Services Regulation Andrew Boon and Noel Semple -- 15. When and Why Do Lawyer Organisations Seek to Influence Law? Lynn Mather and Leslie C Levin -- 16. Legal Education Avrom Sherr -- 17. Paralegals and the Casualisation of Legal Labour Markets Hilary Sommerlad, Tom Clarke, Stefanie Gustafson, Jeanne Hersant, Nina Holvast, Rebecca Sandefur and Luca Verzelloni Part V - Sociology of Professions -- 18. Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions Sida Liu -- 19. Lawyers and Accountants Sundeep Aulakh -- 20. Lawyers and Doctors Mark Exworthy and Simon Moralee -- 21. Cause Lawyering in Conflicted, Authoritarian and Transitional Societies: Politics, Professionalism and Gender Anna Bryson, Kieran McEvoy and Alex Batesmith -- 22. Legal Technology: The Great Disruption? Julian Webb Part VI - Diversity -- 23. Understanding Gender Inequality in the Legal Profession Marta Choroszewicz and Fiona Kay -- 24. Men, Masculinities and the Legal Profession: Asking the 'Man Question' Richard Collier -- 25. Race, Ethnicity and the Legal Profession Hilary Sommerlad, Sameer Ashar, Meera Deo, Marijke ter Voert, Angela Melville and Lisa Hanson Part VII - Conclusion -- 26. Quo Vadis Richard L Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Ulrike Schultz and Hilary Sommerlad

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"This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world. It does this through a comparative analysis of the data provided by the reports on 46 countries in its companion volume: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports (Hart 2020). Together these volumes build on the seminal collection Lawyers in Society (Abel and Lewis 1988a; 1988b; 1989). The period since 1988 has seen an acceleration and intensification of the global socio-economic, cultural and political developments that in the 1980s were challenging traditional professional forms. Together with the striking transformation of the world order as a result of the fall of the Soviet bloc, neo-liberalism, globalisation, the financialisation of capitalism, technological innovations, and the changing demography of lawyers, these developments underscored the need for a new, comparative exploration of the legal professional field. This volume deepens the insights in volume 1, with chapters on legal professions in Africa, Latin America, the Islamic world, emerging economies, and former communist regimes. It also addresses theoretical questions, including the sociology of lawyers and other professions (medicine, accountancy), state production, the rule of law, regional bodies, large law firms, access to justice, technology, casualisation, cause lawyering, diversity (gender, race, and masculinity), corruption, ethics regulation, and legal education. Together with volume 1, it will inform and challenge conceptions of the contemporary profession, and stimulate and support further research."-- Provided by publisher.

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