Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions

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This text addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. An international team of scholars canvasses wide-ranging issues concerning the culture of the legal profession and the wider cultural significance of lawyers, including consideration of the relation to cultural processes of state formation and colonization. The essays describe and analyse significant aspects of the cultural history of the legal profession in England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. The book seeks to understand the complex ways in which lawyers were imaginatively and institutionally constructed, and their larger cultural significance. It illustrates both the diversity and the potential of a cultural approach to lawyers in history.

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...offers a wealth of invaluable insights into the future of our profession that we can only ignore at our peril. -- Justice Gilles Renaud * Deakin Law Review *
a remarkably rich, wide-ranging and stimulating compilation. -- Wilfrid Prest * Adelaide Law Review *
Lawyers and Vampires is a very provocative volume, and it will appeal to many political scientists who are using multiple methods and multidisciplinary approaches in their own work. -- Laura J. Hatcher * The Law and Politics Book Review *

Author Bio

David Sugarman is Professor of Law and Director of the Law in History Programme at Lancaster University. Wesley Pue is Nemetz Professor of Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.