This work examines the on-going efforts of lawyers and allied professionals to construct, police and redefine their respective boundaries. It focuses on the leading corporate practitioners, notably the newly emerging large multinational firms of lawyers and accountants, and on the ways in which they are reshaping the roles and structure of their respective fields. It is these new mega firms of professionals who are playing an increasingly important role in the construction of legal regulation, both national and international.

First published in hardback in April 2003, this is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. An international team of scholars canvasses wide-ranging issues concerning the culture of the legal profession and the wider cultural significance of lawyers, including consideration of their relation to cultural processes of state formation and colonization. The essays describe and analyze significant aspects of the cultural history of the legal profession in England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. The...

This is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. It seeks to understand the complex ways in which lawyers were imaginatively and institutionally constructed, and their larger cultural significance.

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.