Richard L Abel

Lawyers in Society: the Common Law World Richard L Abel

Publisher Marketing: In this reprint from 1988, Abel (law, U. of California, Los Angeles) and Lewis (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, UK) put together eight chapters in which contributors, who are sociology and law professors from around the world, each describe the law profession in their respective countries: Canada, the US, Scotland, England and Wales, Austra Contributor Bio:  Abel, Richard L Author of "American Lawyers" and, most recently, "Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980-1994", Richard L. Abel is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. A past president of the Law and Society Association, he has also edited "The Law and Society Review".