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Revolution and the Collective Action of the French, American, and English Legal Professions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Abstract

The French, American, and English legal professions are compared in terms of four common goals: to control admission and training, to protect their jurisdiction, to regulate the behavior of their members, and to enhance their cooperative status. The varying ways in which revolutionary attacks affected their capacity to realize these goals is traced. It is argued that these attacks, and the way lawyers in these societies recovered from them, largely explain the differences between the three professions in the modem world.

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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1988 

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