Leading Works on the Legal Profession

Introduction: The Legal Profession; 1. Coloring, Highlights, and Pompadours: 25 years from Fragmenting Professionalism and Bleached Out Lawyering; 2. Toward a New Legal Common Sense; 3. Pierre Bourdieu's The Logic of Practice: Understanding the Working Practices of Lawyers; 4. The replacement of the legal profession: Vilhelm Aubert's theory and heritage in the sociology of the legal profession; 5. 'Two versions of the American Dream': Wellbeing and unhappiness in the law school and legal profession: The work of Lawrence Krieger and Kennon Sheldon; 6. Professor John Flood - Barristers' Clerks: The Law's Middlemen; 7. Are Poor People's Lawyers still in Transition? Assessing the relevancy of Jack Katz's work four decades on; 8. (In)visible Legal Careers: Eliane Junqueira's Kaleidoscopic View of Latin America; 9. Four Decades of Future: Assessing Susskind's predictions for the future of legal services; 10. Feminist Judging in the 'Real World': From theory to practice through the eyes of judges; 11. A Story of a Globalist Palestinian Jurist; 12. Criminal Defence Lawyers in England and Wales: Critiquing Criminal Practice; 13. Gender and Commitment in the Legal Profession: Revisiting Sommerlad and Sanderson; 14. Judicial Independence in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Contemporary Spain (Jose J. Toharia); 15. Lawyers who want to make the world a better place - Scheingold and Sarat's Something to Believe in: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering; 16. Studying family mediators in a changing justice system; 17. Beyond Critique: The Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Social-Change Litigation; Afterword: Leading Works in the Legal Profession