Revolution and the making of the contemporary legal profession : England, France, and the United States /
Burrage, MichaelAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
This work examines social revolutions in France, the US and England and looks at the different ways in which social upheaval has prompted radical divergences in the organisation and regulation of the legal profession.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This work examines social revolutions in France, the US and England and looks at the different ways in which social upheaval has prompted radical divergences in the organisation and regulation of the legal profession.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Investigating a fateful encounter -- Ideal and myth in the lives of French advocates -- Practitioners v. legislators and professors in the United States -- Learned friends and gentlemen in England : beneficiaries of the Glorious Revolution -- Comparing professions, states and societies.
Lawyers
Practice of law
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Practice of law
Lawyers
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Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative