Regulating Lawyers Through Disciplinary Systems

Herausgeber: Chan, Kay-Wah; Sherr, Avrom; McMorrow, Judith A

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers comparative analyses on issues in lawyer regulation in England and Wales, Japan, Myanmar, New Zealand and Singapore. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners and regulators of legal profession.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781032616070
• ISBN-10: 1032616075
• Artikelnr.: 69030143

Autorenporträt

Kay-Wah Chan is Visiting Professor (part-time and remote) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He has written and presented on the Japanese legal profession. Judith A. McMorrow is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, in the United States. She works extensively on comparative professional ethics, including lawyer regulation in both the United States and China. Avrom Sherr is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the United Kingdom. He has provided an international leadership role in exploring the sociology of the legal profession and ethics in professional work. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "Trusted to the ends of the earth?" An analysis of
solicitors' disciplinary processes in England and Wales from 1994 to 2015
2. Disciplining legal practitioners in New Zealand 3. The nature of the
disciplinary system over Myanmar lawyers: differences from international
standards and implications for international legal transplants 4.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the lawyer disciplinary system in Japan: a
study on "repeaters" 5. Managing discourse about lawyers: pro bono and
professional misconduct