REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY LEGAL PROFESSION ENGLAND,FRANCE,AND THE UNITED STATES

This Work Examines Social Revolutions In France, The Us And England And Looks At The Different Ways In Which Social Upheaval Has Prompted Radical Divergences In The Organisation And Regulation Of The Legal Profession. Investigating A Fateful Encounter -- Ideal And Myth In The Lives Of French Advocates -- Practitioners Vs. Legislators And Professors In The United States -- Learned Friends And Gentlemen In England : Beneficiaries Of The Glorious Revolution -- Comparing Professions, States, And Civil Societies. Michael Burrage. Includes Bibliographical References And (p. [638]-672) And Index. Lawyers are often the heroes and heroines of contemporary television dramas, those of the English-speaking world at least.