02098nam a22003138a 4500 CR9780511921506 UkCbUP 20170413094210.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100927s2011||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511921506 (ebook) 9780521192682 (hardback) 9780521145992 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda K117 .P366 2011 173/.4 22 The Paradox of Professionalism : Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice / Edited by Scott L. Cummings. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it. Cummings, Scott L., editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521192682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921506 179436 179436