Lawyers & Vampires - Cultural Histories of Legal Professions (with ephemera)

Portland, Ore.: Hart Publishing, 2003. As New/As New; 399 pages; First edition; Review copy with publisher's card laid in; As New in blue cloth titled in gilt in an As New dustjacket. An international team of scholars describe and analyze significant aspects of the cultrual history of the legal profession in England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. Chapters include Ritual, Majest and Mystery: Collective Life and Culture among English Barristers, Serjeants and Judges, c. 1500-1830; 'A Dry and Revolting Study': the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students; 'Finland's Route' of Professionalisation and Lawyer-Officials; Juridicalisation, Professionalisation and the Occupational Culture of the Advocate in the 19th and the early 20th centureis: A Comparison of Germany, Italy and Switzerland; From 'Rechstaat' to 'Welfare State': Swedish Judicial Culture in Transition 1870-1970; The Problems of Wealth and Virtue: The Paris Bar and the Generation of the Fin-de-Siecle; Text and Subtext: French Lawyers' Fees inthe 19th Century; He Would Have Made a Wonderful Solicitor: Law, Modernity and Professionalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula; The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968-1978: Elements in the History of the French White Collar Professional Unionism; Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: the Victoria, Legal Profession in Crisis 1890-1940; Cultural Chasm: 'Mennonite' Lawyers in Western Canada 1900-1939; and Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy.