Special Issue “Where Are the Legal Professions Heading? Selected Papers of the International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions”
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X)
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 July 2017
Special Issue Information:
This Special Issue represents a collection of selected papers of the International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions.
This call is addressed to all members of the different sub-groups:
1. Ethics, Deontology;
2. Family, policy and the Law;
3. International Lawyering and Large Law Firms;
4. Judiciary;
5. Lawyers and Clients;
6. Legal Aid;
7. Legal Education;
8. Legal Professional Values and Identities;
9. Regulatory Reform;
10. Women/Gender in the Legal Profession;
11. Project 2018;
12. Histories of Legal Professions;
13. Lawyers and Imperialism.
This Special Issue is centred on a fundamental research question that characterises the comparative studies on these topics: where are the legal professions heading? The focus is therefore on past, present, and, especially, future of the legal professions, both in Europe and outside Europe, in civil law and common law systems, in the north and south of the world. The legal professions, in fact, are facing important challenges, as especially the issue of their internal heterogeneity – e.g., the gap between the now dominant business lawyers and the judicial bar, each one with different interests, ethics and regulations. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the current interdisciplinary debate on the legal professions, which represent the pivotal “protagonists” of interpretation and application of law, delivery of justice and protection of people’s rights.
Guest Editors:
Dr. Benoit Bastard
Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, CNRS/ENS, France.
Dr. Luca Verzelloni
Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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