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Across the world, political liberalism is being fought for, consolidated, and defended. Nations that have never enjoyed a liberal political society are constrained or inspired by international institutions to create one. Nations that have advanced towards and then retreated from political liberalism are pressed to regain lost ground. Nations that have recently shifted from authoritarian to liberal political systems are encouraged to lock in the transition through institutions and constitutions. Mature democracies are being encouraged to recover diminished freedoms in the face of terrorism and domestic conflict. This book tests, for the contemporary world, the proposition that lawyers are active agents in the construction of liberal political regimes. It examines the efficacy of a framework that postulates that legal professions not only orient themselves to a market for their services, but they frequently can be seen in the forefront of actors seeking to institutionalize political liberalism. On the basis of some sixteen case studies from across the world, the authors present a theoretical link between lawyers and political liberalism having wide-ranging application over radically
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Malcolm Feeley, Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik
- Publisher
- Hart Publishing; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781841137681
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Political Science, Government & Politics
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