Convenor

Andy Boon

Call for Papers

Abstracts may only be submitted via the Easy Chair system. They must be no longer than 300 words and must include your title, name and institutional affiliation and your email address for correspondence.

The deadline for the submissions is Monday 19 January 2015.

The global legal professions continue to undergo radical changes although there are contradictory trends. Many countries in the world aspire to embrace the rule of law and seek to establish independent legal professions as a step in that process. In the meantime, in many Western jurisdictions legislation, technology and competition are driving change in the role, structure, organisation and culture of lawyers and legal professions. As professions change so, arguably, does the nature and connotations of professionalism. This stream is concerned to understand the work of lawyers and the role of professions historically, presently and in the future.
We invite papers on any aspect of the legal profession: law firms, lawyers’ work, organization, practice, ethics of practice, training, globalization and more. We encourage work reflecting sociological, philosophical, theoretical and empirical perspectives on these themes.