| Overview
Law
as a Profession
“The
fact that the legal profession is among the most researched aspects of
law is not an indication of a wider interest among social and behavioral
scientists in the professions, but is a direct function of the professionalization
of the legal occupation itself.” (p.182)
“The
aspiration to maintain occupational autonomy is one of the legal profession’s
most critical and sociologically challenging characteristics.” (p.182)
The Transformation
of the Legal Profession
“Modern
industrialized societies with varying legal traditions have a system of
legal professions. The profession of law, however, is not stable across
time and space in terms of the degree of professionalization, the structure
of the profession, and the organization of legal work.” (p.186)
The Diversification
of Jurisprudence: Critical Legal Studies
“Critical
Legal Studies scholars proclaim political ambitions that can generally
be described as radical, alternative, and/or leftist.” (p.191)
Researching
the Legal Profession: The Case of Gender Inequality
"The
increasing diversity of the legal profession has not always been accompanied
by increasing equality.... Illustrative of the power of sociological research
on inequality in the legal profession are the studies by Fiona Kay and
John Hagan on lawyers in Canada...” (p.194)
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Selected
Online Articles (external links)
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Richard L. 1986. "The
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Abel,
Richard L. 1985. "Comparative
Sociology of Legal Professions: An Exploratory Essay." American Bar
Foundation Research Journal 10(1):1-79.
Halliday, Terence C. 1986.
“Six
Score Years and Ten: Demographic Transitions in the American Legal Profession,
1850—1980.” Law and Society Review 20(1):53-78.
Berends, Miek. 1992. “An
Elusive Profession? Lawyers in Society.” Review Essay. Law and Society
Review 26(1):161-188.
Heinz,
John P., Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Paul S. Schnorr. 1997.
"The
Constituencies of Elite Urban Lawyers." Law & Society Review 31(3):441-472.
Heinz,
John P., Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Ethan Michelson. 1998.
"The
Changing Character of Lawyers' Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995." Law
& Society Review 32(4):751-776.
[see also related book
chapter  ]
Heinz, John P., Nelson, Robert
L., and Edward O. Laumann. 2001. “The
Scale of Justice: Observations on the Transformation of Urban Law Practice.”
Annual Review of Sociology 27(1):337-62. [at annualreviews.org]
Van
Hoy, Jerry. 1995. "Selling
and Processing Law: Legal Work at Franchise Law Firms." Law & Society
Review 29(4):703-730.
Sandefur,
Rebecca L. 2001. "Work
and Honor in the Law: Prestige and the Division of Lawyers' Labor."
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Sandefur, Rebecca L. 2007.
“Lawyers’
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Unger, Roberto M. 1976. Law
in Modern Society: Towards a Criticism of Social Theory. New York:
The Free Press. [at the author's
website]
Gorman, Elizabeth H. 2006.
“Work
Uncertainty and the Promotion of Professional Women: The Case of Law Firm
Partnership.” Social Forces 85(2):865-888.
Kay,
Fiona M. and John Hagan. 1995. "The
Persistent Glass Ceiling: Gendered Inequalities in the Earnings of Lawyers."
British Journal of Sociology 46(2):279-310.
Kay, Fiona M. 1997. “Flight
from Law: A Competing Risks Model of Departures from Law Firms.” Law
and Society Review 31(2):301-336.
Kay,
Fiona M. and John Hagan. 1998. "Raising
the Bar: The Gender Stratification of Law-Firm Capital." American Sociological
Review 63(5):728-743.
Kay,
Fiona M. and John Hagan. 1999. "Cultivating
Clients in the Competition for Partnership: Gender and the Organizational
Restructuring of Law Firms in the 1990s." Law & Society Review
33(3):517-555.
Kay, Fiona M., and Joan Brockman.
2000.“Barriers
to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment.” Feminist Legal
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Hagan, John, and Fiona M.
Kay. 2007. “Even
Lawyers Get the Blues: Gender, Depression, and Job Satisfaction in Legal
Practice.” Law and Society Review 41(1):51-78. [at the publisher's
site]
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