Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions

by W. W. Pue (Editor), David Sugarman (Editor)

Overview

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 the 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 book seeks to understand the complex ways in which lawyers were imaginatively and institutionally constructed, and their larger cultural significance. It illustrates both the diversity and the potential of a cultural approach to lawyers in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841133126
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

David Sugarman is Professor of Law and Director of the Law in History Programme at Lancaster University.
Wesley Pue is Nemetz Professor of Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Lawyers - David Sugarman and W Wesley Pue
PART 1: The Formation of Lawyers
2.Ritual,Majesty and Mystery: Collective Life and Culture among English Barristers, Serjeants and Judges, c. 1500 – c. 1830 - David Lemmings
3.'A Dry and Revolting Study': the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students - Ann Fidler
PART II: LAWYERS AND THE LIBERAL STATE
4. 'Finland's Route' of Professionalisation and Lawyer-Officials - Esa Konttinen
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 - Hannes Siegrist
6.From 'Rechstaat' to 'Welfare State': Swedish Judicial Culture in Transition 1870 – 1970 - Kjell Å Modéer
PART III: WORK AND REPRESENTATIONS
7. The Problems of Wealth and Virtue: The Paris Bar and the Generation of the Fin-de-Siècle -
John Savage
8. Text and Subtext: French Lawyers' Fees in the Nineteenth Century - Jean-Louis Halpérin
9. He Would Have Made a Wonderful Solicitor: Law, Modernity and Professionalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula - Anne McGillivray
10. The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968-1978: Elements in the History of French White Collar Professional Unionism – David Applebaum
PART IV: LAWYERS AND COLONIALISM
11. Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: the Victorian Legal Profession in Crisis 1890-1940 – Rob McQueen
12. Cultural Chasm: 'Mennonite' Lawyers in Western Canada, 1900-1939 – Harold Dick
13. Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession – W Wesley Pue

Editorial Reviews

"...offers a wealth of invaluable insights into the future of our profession that we can only ignore at our peril." --Justice Gilles Renaud, Deakin Law Review

"...a remarkably rich, wide-ranging and stimulating compilation." --Wilfrid Prest, Adelaide Law Review

"Lawyers and Vampires is a very provocative volume, and it will appeal to many political scientists who are using multiple methods and multidisciplinary approaches in their own work." --Laura J. Hatcher, The Law and Politics Book Review

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