Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism
Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Published on 29. January 1998
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-0-19-826288-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. * American Bar Foundation 1999, Review Section Symposium, Lawyers and Politics * This is an important book ... It provides readers with great detail and insight, highlights the limitations of Anglo-American views of professions, and rightly argues that politics and political values matter. * Gerard Hanlon, Work and Occupations, Vol 27, No 4, November 2000 * This is an excellent addition to the literature on legal professionals...This exceptionally well organized book is highly recommended for faculty and graduate students./ M. G. Pufong, Valdosta State University, Choice, Feb 1999, Vol 36/ no 6More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
579 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-826288-6 (9780198262886)
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Persons
Professor Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and President of the National Institute for Social Science Information.
Professor Lucien Karpik is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines.
Professor Lucien Karpik is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines.
Content
1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism ; 2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France ; 3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics ; 4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions ; 5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England ; 6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914 ; 7. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic ; 8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law ; 9. 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