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Author Burrage, Michael

Title Revolution and the making of the contemporary legal profession : England, France, and the United States / Michael Burrage
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 683 pages)
Series Oxford socio-legal studies
Oxford socio-legal studies.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Lawyers -- England -- History
Practice of law -- England -- History
Lawyers -- France -- History
Practice of law -- France -- History
Lawyers -- United States -- History
Practice of law -- United States -- History
Lawyers.
Practice of law.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law, General & Comparative.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Revolution of 1688. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056805
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140139
Subject England.
France.
Great Britain.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191700231
0191700231