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International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions
Introduction [back to contents] The International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions was established, more than twenty years ago, by Richard Abel and Philip Lewis, to carry out an international research project on lawyers – how they developed as a profession and how they control their markets. This research was published, at the end of the 1980s in the three volumes of Lawyers in Society. From the beginning, the WG was part of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, a research committee of ISA (the International Sociological Association). The WG is involved in the activities of RCSL, especially in its bi-annual meeting. The successive Chairs of the WG have been: Terry Halliday, Bill Felstiner, Benoit Bastard and, as of today, Emmanuel Lazega (emmanuel.lazega@ens.fr). The research topics covered by the WG are increasingly diverse: they include studies of other professions in a comparative perspective, such are the judiciary or notaries. The WG is divided in thematic sub-groups (see below their titles and the names of sub-group leaders). Sub-groups have their own agenda and have regular meetings, either within the WG meetings and RCSL congresses, or specific ad hoc meetings. WG meetings are devoted to the presentation and discussion of comparative research projects carried out by members. A great number of publications have come out of their activities, particularly collective books or special issues of journals. The Working Group holds a specific meeting every two years, in preferably in the south of Europe: for instance in Aix-en-Provence (2002), Berder island (2004), and Peyresq (2006). WG members have to be members of the RCSL. They are scholars of different origins and affiliations – sociologists, law professors and lawyers interested in socio-legal studies, members of research centres within the legal field, etc. The WG has more than 100 members who contribute effectively to its conferences and/or to sub-group activities. The WG welcomes new participants and will organize sessions on several issues related to the legal professions at the forthcoming 2007 Berlin Meeting. Benoit Bastard <bastard@mipplus.org> Emmanuel Lazega <emmanuel.lazega@ens.fr>
2010 Gif sur Yvette (Registration form) 2008 Berder island (shorts reports by the subgroups leaders) 2006 Peyresq 2004 Berder island 2002 Aix-en-Provence
Subgroup 1: Ethics, Deontology Leader: "Degroot, Leny" <l.degroot@jur.kun.nl>
Leaders: "Benoit Bastard" <bastard@mipplus.org> "Mavis Maclean" < mavis.maclean@socres.ox.ac.uk >
Leader: "Terry Halliday" <halliday@abfn.org>
Leader: "Tony Bradney" < a.bradney@law.keele.ac.uk>
Leader: "John Flood" <john.flood@tesco.net>
Leader: "Joanna Shapland" <j.m.shapland@sheffield.ac.uk>
Leader: "Alan Paterson" <prof.alan.paterson@strath.ac.uk>
Leaders: "Kim Economides" <k.m.economides@exeter.ac.uk>, "Fiona Cownie" < F.Cownie@hull.ac.uk >
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