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Authors: W. Wesley Pue (Editor), David Sugarman
ISBN-13: 9781841133126, ISBN-10: 1841133124
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: W. Wesley Pue

Book Synopsis

Drawing on the fields of history, law, literary, gender, and visual studies, Sugarman (law in history, Lancaster U., UK) and Pue (legal history, U. of British Columbia, Canada) present 13 essays that look at the construction of the identity and culture of the legal profession England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and Finland. Major themes addressed include the relationship between lawyers and colonialism, state formation and the legal profession, and the professional formation of lawyers. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	List of Contributors
1	Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Lawyers	1
2	Ritual, Majesty and Mystery: Collective Life and Culture among English Barristers, Serjeants and Judges, c.1500-c.1830	25
3	'A Dry and Revolting Study': the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students	65
4	'Finland's Route' of Professionalisation and Lawyer-Officials	101
5	Juridicalisation, Professionalisation and the Occupational Culture of the Advocate in the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth centuries: A Comparison of Germany, Italy and Switzerland	123
6	From 'Rechstaat' to 'Welfare State': Swedish Judicial Culture in Transition 1870-1970	151
7	The Problems of Wealth and Virtue: The Paris Bar and the Generation of the Fin-de-Siecle	171
8	Text and Subtext: French Lawyers' Fees in the Nineteenth Century	211
9	He Would Have Made a Wonderful Solicitor: Law, Modernity and Professionalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula	225
10	The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968-1978: Elements in the History of French White Collar Professional Unionism	269
11	Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: the Victorian Legal Profession in Crisis 1890-1940	293
12	Cultural Chasm: 'Mennonite' Lawyers in Western Canada, 1900-1939	329
13	Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession	367