Richard L Abel

Lawyers in Society: the Civil Law World Richard L Abel

Publisher Marketing: This is the second of three volumes on the comparative sociology of legal professions. Whereas the first volume looked at the major common law countries, this one shifts attention to eleven civil law professions, looking at Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and Venezuela. Abel (law, U. of C 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".