Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism: Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Abstract

1. Politics Matter: a Comparative Theory of Lawyers in the Making of Political Liberalism 2. Barristers, Politics, and the Failure of Civil Society in Old Regime France 3. Builders of Liberal Society: French Lawyers and Politics 4. Mrs Thatcher Against the Little Republics: Ideology, Precedents, and Reactions 5. Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England 6. State, Capitalism, and the Organization of Legal Counsel: Examining an Extreme Case - the Prussian Bar, 1700-1914 7. Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism: the German Bar in the Weimar Republic 8. Making the Courts Safe for the Powerful: the Commercial Stimulus for Judicial Autonomy in Reforms of the United States Bankruptcy Law 9. The Politics of Professionalism: the creation of Legal Aid and the strains of political liberalism in America, 1900-1930 Postscript: Lawyers, Political Liberalism, and Globalization