In November 1997, the world media converged on Canada to cover a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vancouver. A student protest met unusually strong police response. Among many others, a news cameraman was pepper-sprayed by an irate-looking police officer, resulting in a dramatic video which has been played repeatedly.
Other news stories developed. Two dozen law professors wrote to the Prime Minister of Canada recording a number of serious constitutional violations which had taken place on campus. Lawsuits named Canada's national police force and the Canadian...
In November 1997, the world media converged on Canada to cover a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vancouver. A student protest m...
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...
First published in hardback in April 2003, this is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. An internation...
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 is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. It seeks to understand the complex ways in which lawyers ...
Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social roles that lawyers imagined for themselves in England and its empire from the late-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a moment when lawyers sought to reshape their profession while at the same time imagining they were shaping nation and empire in the process. As an exploration of the relationship between legal professionals and liberalism, this book draws attention to recurrent tensions in between how lawyers have best assured their own economic well-being...
Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social roles that lawyers imagined for themselves in En...
