Professor Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and President of the National Institute for Social Science Information.Professor Lucien Karpik is Professor of Sociology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines.

• 1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism ; 2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France ; 3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics ; 4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions ; 5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England ; 6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914 ; 7. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic ; 8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law ; 9. The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930 ; Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization

essays ... that engage and challenge the intellect .. the studies are framed by a well-theorized introductory chapter ... Grossberg's article on legal aid in the United States is particularly strong and revealing on the internal politics of the legal professions ... Both the political agenda articulated by Halliday and Karpik and the data they and their contributors generated are of tremendous importance ... This volume will ... be seminal for both the controversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.

Professor Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and President of the National Institute for Social Science Information.Professor Lucien Karpik is Professor of Sociology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines.

• 1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism ; 2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France ; 3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics ; 4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions ; 5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England ; 6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914 ; 7. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic ; 8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law ; 9. The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930 ; Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization

essays ... that engage and challenge the intellect .. the studies are framed by a well-theorized introductory chapter ... Grossberg's article on legal aid in the United States is particularly strong and revealing on the internal politics of the legal professions ... Both the political agenda articulated by Halliday and Karpik and the data they and their contributors generated are of tremendous importance ... This volume will ... be seminal for both the controversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.

Professor Terence C Halliday is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and President of the National Institute for Social Science Information.Professor Lucien Karpik is Professor of Sociology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines.

• 1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism ; 2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France ; 3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics ; 4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions ; 5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England ; 6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914 ; 7. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic ; 8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law ; 9. The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930 ; Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization

essays ... that engage and challenge the intellect .. the studies are framed by a well-theorized introductory chapter ... Grossberg's article on legal aid in the United States is particularly strong and revealing on the internal politics of the legal professions ... Both the political agenda articulated by Halliday and Karpik and the data they and their contributors generated are of tremendous importance ... This volume will ... be seminal for both the controversies and the follow-up research that it will spawn.