Richard L Abel

Lawyers in Society: Comparative Theories Richard L Abel

Publisher Marketing: This is the last of three volumes on the comparative sociology of legal professions. Unlike the first two, which offered reports on individual country systems, this text uses national reports and other data sources to explore a variety of theoretical and methodological issues. Editors Abel (law, U. of California at Los Angeles, US) and Lewis (Centr 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".