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Lawyers and vampires : Cultural histories of legal professions

Pue W Wesley

Lawyers and vampires : Cultural histories of legal professions - Oxford Hart Publishing 2003 - 399p ix

Contents:
List of contributors;
1.Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Lawyers - David Sugarman and W Wesley Pue 1;
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 25;
3.'A Dry and Revolting Study': the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students - Ann Fidler 65;
PART II: LAWYERS AND THE LIBERAL STATE:
4. 'Finland's Route' of Professionalisation and Lawyer-Officials - Esa Konttinen 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 - Hannes Siegrist 123;
6.From 'Rechstaat' to 'Welfare State': Swedish Judicial Culture in Transition 1870 – 1970 - Kjell Å Modéer 151;
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 171;
8. Text and Subtext: French Lawyers' Fees in the Nineteenth Century - Jean-Louis Halpérin 211;
9. He Would Have Made a Wonderful Solicitor: Law, Modernity and Professionalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula - Anne McGillivray 225;
10. The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968-1978: Elements in the History of French White Collar Professional Unionism – David Applebaum 269;
PART IV: LAWYERS AND COLONIALISM:
11. Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: the Victorian Legal Profession in Crisis 1890-1940 – Rob McQueen 293;
12. Cultural Chasm: 'Mennonite' Lawyers in Western Canada, 1900-1939 – Harold Dick 329;
13. Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession – W Wesley Pue 367.



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1. Lawyers - History2. Practice Of Law - History3. Law - Social Aspects4. Legal Profession - History

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