The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization

Luciana Gross Cunha is a professor and the Associate Dean of the Center for Applied Legal Research at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo. Daniela Monteiro Gabbay is Professor of Civil Procedure, Strategies and Mediation at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo. José Garcez Ghirardi is a professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo, where he acted as the methodology coordinator from 2009–10. He is an accredited member of the Brazilian Bar Association. David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

1. Globalization, lawyers and emerging economics: the case of Brazil Luciana Gross Cunha, Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, José Garcez Ghirardi, David M. Trubek and David B. Wilkins; 2. Corporate law firms: the Brazilian case Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, Luciana Ramos and Ligia Pinto Sica; 3. In-house counsels in Brazil: careers, professional profiles, and new roles Fabiana Luci de Oliveira and Luciana Ramos; 4. South by Southeast: comparing the development of in-house legal department in Brazil and India David B. Wilkins and Vikramaditya S. Khanna; 5. Globalizing processes for São Paulo attorneys: gender stratification in law firms and law-related businesses Maria da Gloria Bonelli and Camila de Pieri Benedito; 6. The Ordem dos Advogados do Brazil and the politics of professional regulation in Brazil Frederico de Almeida and Paulo André Nassar; 7. Doing well and doing good in an emerging economy: the social organization of pro bono Among corporate lawyers and law firms in São Paulo, Brazil Fabio de Sa e Silva; 8. Legal education in Brazil: the challenges and opportunities of a changing context Luciana Gross Cunha and José Garcez Ghirardi; 9. Transforming legal capacity in Brazil: international trade law and the myth of a booming practice Rubens Glezer, Vitor M. Dias, Adriane Sanctis de Brito and Rafael A. F. Zanatta; 10. Lawyering in new developmentalism: legal professionals and the construction of the telecom sector in the emerging Brazil (1980s–2010s) Fabio de Sa e Silva and David M. Trubek.