Rövid leírás:
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 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.
Több
Hosszú leírás:
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.
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 the controversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism
Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France
Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics
Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions
Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England
State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case – the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914
Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic
Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law
The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930
Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization
