Lawyers and vampires : cultural histories of legal professions / edited by W. Wesley Pue and David Sugarman.

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2003.

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Lawyers -- History.

Lawyers -- United States -- History.

Lawyers -- Finland -- History.

Lawyers -- Germany -- History.

Lawyers -- Italy -- History.

Lawyers -- Switzerland -- History.

Lawyers -- France -- History.

Lawyers -- Australia -- History.

Lawyers -- Canada -- History.

1. Introduction : towards a cultural history of lawyers

Part I. The formation of lawyers

2. Ritual, majesty and mystery : collective life and culture among English barristers, serjeants and judges, c1500-c1830

3. 'A dry and revolting study' : the life and labours of antebellum law students

Part II. Lawyers and the liberal state

4. 'Finland's route' of professionalisation and lawyer-officials

5. Juridicalisation, professionalisation and the occupational culture of the advocate in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries : a comparison of Germany, ItalyandSwitzerland

6. From Rechstaat to welfare state : Swedish judicial culture in transition, 1870-1970

Part III. Work and representations

7. The problems of wealth and virtue : the Paris Bar and the generation of the Fin-de-Siècle

8. Text and subtext : French lawyers' fees in the nineteenth century

9. He would have made a wonderful solicitor : law, modernity and professionalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula

10. The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968-1978 : elements in the history of French white collar professional unionism

Part IV. Lawyers and colonialism

11. Together we fall, divided we stand : the Victorian legal profession in crisis, 1890-1940

12. Cultural chasm : 'Mennonite' lawyers in Western Canada, 1900-1939

13. Cultural projects and structural transformation in the Canadian legal profession.

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