Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports

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The world's legal professions have undergone dramatic changes in the 30 years since publication of the landmark three-volume 'Lawyers in Society', which launched comparative sociological studies of lawyers. This is the first of two volumes in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures document and analyse those changes. The present volume presents reports on 46 countries, with broad coverage of North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia, North Africa and the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and former communist countries. These national reports address the impact of globalisation and neoliberalism on national legal professions , changes in lawyer demography , legal education , structures of production , the distribution of lawyers across roles, and access to justice . Juxtaposition of the reports reveals the dramatic transformations of professional rationales, labour markets, and working practices and the multiple contingencies of the role of lawyers in societies experiencing increasing juridification within a new geopolitical order.