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Oxford Socio-Legal Studies: Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism : Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries by Lucien Karpik (1998, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198262884

ISBN-139780198262886

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Number of Pages388 Pages

Publication NameLawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism : Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLegal Profession, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Comparative

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

AuthorLucien Karpik

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science

SeriesOxford Socio-Legal Studies

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

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ReviewsThis is an excellent addition to the literature on legal professionals...This exceptionally well organized book is highly recommended for faculty and graduate students./ M. G. Pufong, Valdosta State University, Choice, Feb 1999, Vol 36/ no 6, 'essays ... that engage and challenge the intellect .. the studies are framed by a well-theorized introductory chapter ... Grossberg's article on legal aid in the United States is particularly strong and revealing on the internal politics of the legal professions ... Both the political agendaarticulated by Halliday and Karpik and the data they and their contributors generated are of tremendous importance ... This volume will ... be seminal for both the controversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.'American Bar Foundation 1999, Review Section Symposium, Lawyers and Politics, 'essays ... that engage and challenge the intellect .. the studies are framed by a well-theorized introductory chapter ... Grossberg's article on legal aid in the United States is particularly strong and revealing on the internal politics of the legal professions ... Both the political agenda articulated by Halliday and Karpik and the data they and their contributors generated are of tremendous importance ... This volume will ... be seminal for both thecontroversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.'American Bar Foundation 1999, Review Section Symposium, Lawyers and Politics'This is an important book ... It provides readers with great detail and insight, highlights the limitations of Anglo-American views of professions, and rightly argues that politics and political values matter.'Gerard Hanlon, Work and Occupations, Vol 27, No 4, November 2000This is an excellent addition to the literature on legal professionals...This exceptionally well organized book is highly recommended for faculty and graduate students./ M. G. Pufong, Valdosta State University, Choice, Feb 1999, Vol 36/ no 6, 'This is an important book ... It provides readers with great detail and insight, highlights the limitations of Anglo-American views of professions, and rightly argues that politics and political values matter.'Gerard Hanlon, Work and Occupations, Vol 27, No 4, November 2000, "Halliday and Karpik develop an insightful theory of lawyers' influence on the emergence and development of Western-style liberalism....This is an excellent addition to the literature on legal professionals....This exceptionally organized book is highly recommended for faculty and graduate students."--Choice

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal340/.023

Table Of Content1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-19147. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law9. The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization

SynopsisIn contrast to other theories of legal professions, which neglect politics, this volume advances a political theory of lawyers' collective action by demonstrating lawyers' influence on the emergence and development of western political liberalism. Four sociologists and four historians show how lawyers, over several centuries, have been variously committed to the building of liberal political society in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.The introductory chapters, written by the editors, present a theoretical argument that integrates the historical and comparative studies of lawyers' engagement in three areas of liberal politics: the constitution of the moderate state, the institutions of civil society, and the constitution of individual rights. The editors conclude the book with an essay on lawyers' historical involvements in political globalization.This fresh interpretation not only demonstrates the variety of relationships between lawyers and politics, but it delineates issues, concepts, and a theory that helps understand the current action of lawyers in new democracies., In contrast to other theories of legal professions, which neglect politics, this volume advances a political theory of lawyers' collective action by demonstrating lawyers' influence on the emergence and development of western political liberalism. Four sociologists and four historians show how layers, over several centuries, have been variously committed to the building of liberal political society in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.The introductory chapters, written by the editors, present a theoretical argument that integrates the historical and comparative studies of lawyers' engagement in three areas of liberal politics: the constitution of the moderate state, the institutions of civil society, and the constitution of individual rights. The editors conclude the book with an essay on lawyers' historical involvements in political globalization.This fresh interpretation not only demonstrates the variety of relationships between lawyers and politics, but it delineates issues, concepts, and a theory that helps understand the current action of lawyers in new democracies., In contrast to other theories of legal professions, which neglect politics, this volume advances a political theory of lawyers' collective action by demonstrating lawyers' influence on the emergence and development of western political liberalism. Four sociologists and four historians show how layers, over several centuries, have been variously committed to the building of liberal political society in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. The introductory chapters, written by the editors, present a theoretical argument that integrates the historical and comparative studies of lawyers' engagement in three areas of liberal politics: the constitution of the moderate state, the institutions of civil society, and the constitution of individual rights. The editors conclude the book with an essay on lawyers' historical involvements in political globalization. This fresh interpretation not only demonstrates the variety of relationships between lawyers and politics, but it delineates issues, concepts, and a theory that helps understand the current action of lawyers in new democracies., This new volume originated in a collective project aimed at developing an alternative theoretical approach to the market monopoly theory that currently dominates studies of the legal professions. In contrast to theories linking the rise of professionalism to the development of economic liberalism, this book advances a political theory of lawyers' collective action. The contributors focus on areas where the engagement of lawyers has shaped the core of liberal politics; these papers can only enrich our understanding of the political importance of lawyers.

LC Classification NumberK117.L368 1997