Lawyers and the Legal Profession, Volumes I and II

Tanina Rostain is Professor of Law at New York Law School, USA.

Contents: Volume I: Introduction; Part I The Professional Project in Historical and Sociological Perspective: United States: the contradictions of professionalism, Richard L. Abel ; Comparing legal professions cross-nationally: from a professions-centered to a state-centered approach, Dietrich Rueschemeyer; Lawyers and politics in France 1814-1950: the state, the market, and the public, Lucien Karpik; 'The ideal and the actual in law': fantasies and practices of New York City lawyers 1870-1910, Robert W. Gordon; Professionalism and monopoly of expertise: lawyers and administrative law, 1933-37, Ronen Shamir; Knowledge mandates: collective influence by scientific, normative and syncretic professions, Terence C. Halliday. Part II Stratification and Exclusion: Dispelling the Myth of an Integrated Bar: Specialization and prestige in the legal profession: the structure of deference, Edward O. Laumann and John P. Heinz; The changing character of lawyers' work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995, John P. Heinz, Robert L. Nelson, Edward O. Laumann and Ethan Michelson; Partners without power? A preliminary look at black partners in corporate law firms, David B.Wilkins; Negotiating professionalism: the gendered social capital of flexible time, Carroll Seron and Kerry Ferris. Part III The Creation of Transnational Legal Regimes and Markets: Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs: constructing international justice from the competition for transnational business disputes, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; Social skill, the Milosevic indictment, and the rebirth of international criminal justice, John Hagan and Ron Levi; Index. Volume II: Introduction; Part I Corporate Practice: The US Experience: Ideology, practice, and professional autonomy: social values and client relationships in the large law firm, Robert L. Nelson; Cops, counsel and entrepreneurs: constructing the role of inside counsel in large corporations, Robert L. Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen; 'We're all consultants now':