Legal Profession

The legal profession refers to all occupational roles oriented toward the administration and maintenance of the legal system. Encompassing lawyers, judges, notaries, mediators, paralegals, counselors, as well as experts of legal education and scholarship, the legal profession has been the subject of considerable reflection in sociology. This sociological interest parallels the enormous attention devoted to the legal profession in various strands of sociolegal studies, including other social sciences besides sociology, as well as jurisprudence. Scholars have been intrigued by the successful monopolization of the execution of legal functions and the resulting social standing and closure of the legal profession. The fact that the legal profession is among the most researched aspects of law is thus a direct function of the professionalization of the legal role itself. Yet, although most scholarly research on the legal profession comes from within jurisprudence and from law‐and‐society perspectives, there also exists a distinctly sociological tradition on the societal aspects of the legal profession

Empirical legal studies · Jurisprudence · Legal Education · Legal Ethics · Legal pluralism · Legal practice · Legal profession · Legal realism · Legal research · Monopolization · Political science · Professionalization · Scholarship · Sociology · Sociology of law · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations

• Who governs? Delegations and delegates in global trade lawmaking

  Open Access•Terence C Halliday, Josh Pacewicz et al.•Regulation & Governance•2013

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• Developmental Practices, Organizational Culture, and Minority Representation in Organizational Leadership

  Open Access•Fiona M Kay, Elizabeth H Gorman et al.•The Annals of the American…•2012

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• Interorganizational Determinants of Promotion

  Open Access•Christine M Beckman, D J Phillips•American Sociological Review•2005

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• Work Uncertainty and the Promotion of Professional Women

  Elizabeth Gorman, E H Gorman•Social Forces•2006

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• Nunca Te Toman En Cuenta [They Never Take You Into Account]

  Open Access•Gladys García-López•Gender & Society•2008

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• Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class, and Gender Inequality

  Rebecca L Sandefur•Annual Review of Sociology•2008

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