The Paradox of Professionalism : Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice / edited by Scott L. Cummings.
2011
K117 .P366 2011 (Map It)
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Title
The Paradox of Professionalism : Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice / edited by Scott L. Cummings.
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
K117 .P366 2011
ISBN
9780521192682 (hardback)
0521192684 (hardback)
9780521145992 (paperback)
0521145996 (paperback)
0521192684 (hardback)
9780521145992 (paperback)
0521145996 (paperback)
Description
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)678537212
Summary
"This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
vii
Contributors
ix
Preface and Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Introduction: What Good Are Lawyers? / Scott L. Cummings
1
pt. I
LAWYERS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD: THE FUNDAMENTAL DILEMMA
2.
Are Lawyers Friends of Democracy? / Robert W. Gordon
31
3.
"The Conscience of Society?": The Legal Complex, Religion, and the Fates of Political Liberalism / Terence C. Halliday
50
4.
More Lawyers than People: The Global Multiplication of Legal Professionals / Marc Galanter
68
5.
Faces of the Tort Pyramid: Compensation, Regulation, and the Profession / John T. Nockleby
90
pt. II
LAWYERS AND THEIR CLIENTS: DETERMINANTS OF ETHICAL PRACTICE
6.
How and Why Do Lawyers Misbehave? Lawyers, Discipline, and Collegial Control / Lynn Mather
109
7.
Aspects of Professionalism: Constructing the Lawyer-Client Relationship / Philip Lewis
132
8.
Professional Regulation and Public Service: An Unfinished Agenda / Deborah L. Rhode
153
9.
An Innovative Approach to Legal Education: The Founding of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law / Carroll Seron
169
pt. III
LAWYERS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: MOBILIZING LAW FOR JUSTICE
10.
Without Fear, Favor, or Prejudice: Judicial Independence and the Transformation of the Judiciary in South Africa / Penelope Andrews
197
11.
Lawyers in National Policymaking / John P. Heinz
220
12.
Cause Lawyers and Other Signs of Progress: Three Thai Narratives / Frank Munger
243
13.
African Youth Mobilize against Garbage: Economic and Social Rights Advocacy and the Practice of Democracy / Lucie E. White
274
14.
Epilogue: Just Law? / Richard L. Abel
296
Index
319