Reorganisation and resistance : legal professions confront a changing world / edited by William L.F. Felstiner.

Reorganization and Resistance analyses the ways in which the legal professions of nine countries (England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Korea) and one continent (South America) have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheava...

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Other Authors: Felstiner, William L. F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Pub., 2005.
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Summary:Reorganization and Resistance analyses the ways in which the legal professions of nine countries (England, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia and Korea) and one continent (South America) have confronted the internal and external political, economic and social upheavals of the past twenty years. It documents how change and resistance are inextricably tied together in an oppositional tension where the greater weight shifts gradually from one to the other, even shifts backwards at times, but in the long view runs in the direction of change. The most obvious instan.
Item Description:Essays from the Working Group on the Comparative Study of Legal Professions, a body within the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Law.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 358 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847310538
1847310532
1280807962
9781280807961
9781472559784
1472559789
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.