Investigating a fateful encounter -- Ideal and myth in the lives of French advocates -- Practitioners v. legislators and professors in the United States -- Learned friends and gentlemen in England : beneficiaries of the Glorious Revolution -- Comparing professions, states and societies
Summary
This work examines social revolutions in France, the US and England and looks at the different ways in which social upheaval has prompted radical divergences in the organisation and regulation of the legal profession