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The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”

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Abel, Richard L., Hilary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev, and Ulrike Schultz eds. Lawyers in 21st Century Societies: Volume 2: Comparisons and Theories. Hart, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2022

Antoine Vauchez*
Affiliation:
CNRS Research Professor in political sociology and law at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne and a Permanent Visiting professor at iCourts Research Centre (University of Copenhagen).

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International Book Essays
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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His research focuses on the definitional power of law and lawyers in the neoliberal transformation of politics and of states in Europe. His most recent books include: Brokering Europe. Euro-lawyers and the Making of a Transnational Polity (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015); with Thomas Piketty, et al.: How to Democratize Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019); and The Neoliberal Republic. Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft and the Making of Public-Private France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021).

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