Lawyers and Vampires

Cultural Histories of Legal Professions
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84113-519-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

First published in hardback in April 2003, 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 colonisation. The essays describe and analyse 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.

'Wesley Pue and David Sugarman have produced a fascinating volume of essays written from various perspectives under the rubric of cultural histories. I. want to present a sense of the richness of the essays in this volume. 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, November 2003

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pue, W. Wesley

Sugarman, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.