1201 Lawyers in the 21st Century Society II
WG Comparative Studies of Legal Professions
Room: Auditório J.J. LaginhaB2.03
Chair: Ole Hammerslev | University of Southern Denmark
Luca Verzelloni | Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra
Stefanie Gustafsson | University of Bath
N. Holvast
Hilary Sommerlad | University of Leeds
Casualisation and proletarianization of the legal profession
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Hilary Sommerlad | University of Leeds
Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Marijke ter Voert | WODC
Angela Melville
Lisa Hanson
Ethnicity diversity and the legal profession: 4 case studies of ethnically ‘non-normative’ lawyers
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Rosemary Hunter | Queen Mary University of London
Annette Olesen | Aalborg University
Rebecca L. Sandefur | University of Illinois
Lawyers and Access to Justice
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This paper is a thematic contribution to the Lawyers in 21st Century Society project. It examines the changing role of lawyers in the provision of legal aid and access to justice over the past 30 years, through case studies of the USA, the Nordic countries and England & Wales.
Richard Abel | UCLA Law School
Comparative Sociology of Legal Professions: a 30-year perspective
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In 1988-89, Philip Lewis and I published the three volumes of "Lawyers in Society" (University of California Press). It contained national reports on 19 common law and civil law legal professions and theoretical and comparative chapters. Now, Hilary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev, Ulrike Schultz and I are engaged in revisiting those issues. We will publish two volumes (with Hart) in 2019-20 containing national reports on 45 legal professions and thematic chapters. This paper is my overview of the changes that have occurred in legal professions during the last 30 years and hypotheses about what we may expect in the next 30, based on those 45 national reports (which we are in the process of editing). It will address the following issues among others: neoliberal reforms, globalization, new public management, numbers and demography, legal education, access to justice, the role of professional associations in preserving the rule of law.