Too Many Lawyers?: The future of the legal profession

by Eyal Katvan (Editor), Carole Silver (Editor), Neta Ziv (Editor), Avrom Sherr (Editor)

Overview

The topic of "too many lawyers" is timely. The future make up and performance of the legal profession is in contest. What do we mean by "too many"? Is there a surplus of lawyers and what sort of lawyers are and will be needed? How best can we discern this? This book, is composed of scholarly articles presented at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain), by some of the best researchers in the field, aims to answer these questions. This collection, with an introduction by Prof. Richard L. Abel, addresses methodological, normative and policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular countries and worldwide, while connecting this phenomenon to political, social, economic, historical, cultural and comparative contexts. This makes this book a source of interest to lawyers, law students, academic and policy makers as well as the discerning public. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315449784
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/26/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	294
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Eyal Katvan Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, College of Law & Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Specializes in the fields of bioethics, law & medicine; The Legal and Medical Professions; legal history and the history of medicine.

Carole Silver Professor of Global Law & Practice, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Research in globalization and the legal profession, legal education, regulation of the legal profession.

Neta Ziv Professor at the Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Teaches Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics, Law and Poverty and Disability Rights. Her book "Who Will Guard the Guardians of Law? Lawyers in Israel between the State market and Civil Society" (2015) describes the Israeli legal profession from a historical, critical perspective.

Avrom Sherr Emeritus Professor and Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Research in Legal Education, Legal Profession, Access to Justice, Ethics and conduct of Professions, Professional Competence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Too many lawyers? 1. What does and should influence the number of lawyers? 2. Too many lawyers? Or should lawyers be doing other things? 3. Unauthorized practice of law and the production of lawyers 4. The flood of US lawyers: natural fluctuation or professional climate change? 5. It’s the law schools stupid! Explaining the continuing increase in the number of lawyers 6. Coping with the consequences of ‘too many lawyers’: securing the place of international graduate law students 7. Effects of the acceleration in the number of lawyers in Israel 8. The new knowledge economy and the transformation of the law discipline 9. Is access to the profession access to justice? Lessons from Canada 10. The ‘overcrowding the profession’ argument and the professional melting pot 11. Setting the limits: who controls the size of the legal profession in Japan? 12. Legal education in Spain: challenges and risks in devising access to the legal professions 13. The virtue of low barriers to becoming a lawyer: promoting liberal and democratic values 14. ‘I love my American job’: professional prestige in the Indian outsourcing industry and global consequences of an expanding legal profession