INTRODUCTION 1. Studying Lawyers Comparatively in the 21st Century: Issues in Method and Methodology Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK) and Ole Hammerslev (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) PART I COMPARISONS: REGIONS, RELIGIONS, POLITICAL ECONOMIES 2. Evolution of Latin American Lawyers Over Three Decades: 19902020 Manuel A Gomez (Florida International University, US) 3. Africas Lawyers: From Imperial Agents to Legal Brokers in Global Markets Sara Dezalay (Cardiff University, UK) 4. Lawyers in the Muslim World: Between Social Transformation, Judicial Control, and Feminisation Mirjam Kunkler (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Netherlands) 5. Post-Socialist Legal Professions: Jurisdictional Volatility, Changing Regulatory Logics and the Return of Guilds Rafael Mrowczynski (Imre Kertesz Center for Advanced Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) PART II DIVERSITY 6. Understanding Gender Inequality in the Legal Profession Marta Choroszewicz (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Fiona Kay (Professor of Sociology, Queens University, Canada) 7. Men, Masculinities and the Legal Professions: Asking the Man Question Richard Collier (Newcastle Law School, UK) 8. Race, Ethnicity and the Legal Profession Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK), Angela Melville (College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Australia), Lisa Hanson (Wardiparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Research Group, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia) ), Sameer Ashar (University of California Irvine, US), Meera Deo (Southwestern Law School, US) and Marijke ter Voert (Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Netherlands) PART III PRODUCTION OF LAW AND LAWYERS 9. Still Special After All These Years? Fundamental Questions in Legal Services Regulation Andrew Boon (City Law School, City, University of London, UK) and Noel Semple (University of Windsor, Canada) 10. When and Why Do Lawyer Organisations Seek to Influence Law? Lynn Mather (University at Buffalo School of Law, US) and Leslie C Levin (University of Connecticut, US) 11. Globalisation and Education: Reconfigurations in Location, Scale, Form and Content Ole Hammerslev (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 12. Paralegals and the Casualisation of Legal Labour Markets Hilary Sommerlad (University of Leeds, UK), Jeanne Hersant (School of Social Work, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile), Nina Holvast (School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), Luca Verzelloni (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal), Stefanie Gustafsson (School of Management, University of Bath, UK), Rebecca L Sandefur (Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, PART IV LAWYERS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 13. Lawyers and Access to Justice Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent, UK), Annette Olesen (Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Denmark) and Rebecca L Sandefur (Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, US) 14. Cause Lawyering in Conflicted, Authoritarian and Transitional Societies: Politics, Professionalism and Gender Anna Bryson (School of Law, Queens University Belfast, UK), Kieran McEvoy (Queens University Belfast, UK) and Alex Batesmith (School of Law, University of Leeds, UK) 15. Advocates for Silenced Voices: How Human Rights Lawyers in Europe and Latin America Defend the Rule of Law Stefanie Lemke (International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain) PART V MULTINATIONAL FIRMS 16. The Many Lives of Big Law: Three Decades in the Evolution of Large Law Firms Manuel A Gomez (Florida International University, US) and Marc Galanter (University of Wisconsin Law School, US) 17. Globalisation, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China David B Wilkins (Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, US), David M Trubek (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) and Bryon Fong (Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, US) 18. Lawyers and the European Union: The Rise of a Regulatory Bar in Brussels (19892019) Lola Avril (Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Italy) PART VI SOCIOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS 19. Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions Sida Liu (University of Toronto, Canada) 20. Accountants versus Lawyers: Comparing the Moneymen with the Monied (Gentle)men Sundeep Aulakh (Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School, UK) 21. The Mutation of Medical Professionalism Mark Exworthy (School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK) and Simon Moralee (Alliance Manchester Business School, UK) 22. Legal Technology: The Great Disruption? Julian Webb (Melbourne Law School, Australia) PART VII LAWYERS AND STATE PRODUCTION 23. State-Centred Comparison of Legal Professions in an Era of Globalisation Frank W Munger (New York Law School, US) 24. Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History of the Internationalisation of National Legal Hierarchies Yves Dezalay (Centre national de a recherche scientifique, France) and Bryant G Garth (University of California, Irvine, US) 25. Money Laundering, Corruption and the Legal Profession: An Exploration Mike Levi (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK) CONCLUSION 26. Comparative Sociology of Lawyers, 19882018: Governance, Regulation, Access to Justice, Political Engagement, Regime Change and the Rule of Law Richard L Abel (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
