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020			_a9780511921506 (ebook)
020			_z9780521192682 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aK117 _b.P366 2011
082	0	0	_a173/.4 _222
245	0	4	_aThe Paradox of Professionalism : _bLawyers and the Possibility of Justice / _cedited by Scott L. Cummings.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (336 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it.
700	1		_aCummings, Scott L., _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521192682
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921506
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38462 _d38462