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Informationen zum Autor Eyal Katvan Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, College of Law & Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Specializes in the fields of bioethics, law & medicine; The Legal and Medical Professions; legal history and the history of medicine. Carole Silver Professor of Global Law & Practice, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Research in globalization and the legal profession, legal education, regulation of the legal profession. Neta Ziv Professor at the Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Teaches Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics, Law and Poverty and Disability Rights. Her book "Who Will Guard the Guardians of Law? Lawyers in Israel between the State market and Civil Society" (2015) describes the Israeli legal profession from a historical, critical perspective. Avrom Sherr is Emeritus Professor and Director at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK. His research focuses on legal education, the legal profession, access to justice, ethics and conduct of professions, and professional competence. Klappentext Are there "too many lawyers"? This book addresses this question by country and globally, as well as the facts, reasons, consequences and solutions regarding the future of lawyers and legal practice. Zusammenfassung Are there "too many lawyers"? This book addresses this question by country and globally, as well as the facts, reasons, consequences and solutions regarding the future of lawyers and legal practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Too many lawyers? 1. What does and should influence the number of lawyers? 2. Too many lawyers? Or should lawyers be doing other things? 3. Unauthorized practice of law and the production of lawyers 4. The flood of US lawyers: natural fluctuation or professional climate change? 5. It’s the law schools stupid! Explaining the continuing increase in the number of lawyers 6. Coping with the consequences of ‘too many lawyers’: securing the place of international graduate law students 7. Effects of the acceleration in the number of lawyers in Israel 8. The new knowledge economy and the transformation of the law discipline 9. Is access to the profession access to justice? Lessons from Canada 10. The ‘overcrowding the profession’ argument and the professional melting pot 11. Setting the limits: who controls the size of the legal profession in Japan? 12. Legal education in Spain: challenges and risks in devising access to the legal professions 13. The virtue of low barriers to becoming a lawyer: promoting liberal and democratic values 14. ‘I love my American job’: professional prestige in the Indian outsourcing industry and global consequences of an expanding legal profession ...
