Lawyers and Their Society

Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur

“…Yet empirical patterns also suggest caution. Nation-specific factors, carrier groups, interests, institutions, and cultural sensitivities clearly affect representations, in support of a different, historicizing brand of neoWeberian scholarship (Bendix [1949(Bendix [ ] 1974Gorski 2003;Roth 1987;Rueschemeyer 1973;Kalberg 1994Kalberg , 2014King 2005, 2011). My findings confirm and elaborate on Halliday and Carruthers's conclusion (2010) that cultural distance from the global affects national adaptations of global models.…”

“…The boundary between state and society is particularly porous in the United States (Bendix [1949(Bendix [ ] 1974Gorski 2003;Roth 1987;Rueschemeyer 1973;Kalberg 2014;Savelsberg and King 2005). Candidates for legislative office are selected via popular vote in primary elections; the head of the executive branch is elected in a general election; and even many officeholders in the judiciary branch are elected.…”

“…But others insert a note of caution; some in fact thoroughly disagree. They highlight nation-specific social forces, carrier groups, interests, institutions, and cultural sensitivities, rooted in a country's history, through which global themes, representations, narratives, or norms are filtered (Bendix [1949(Bendix [ ] 1974Gorski 2003;Roth 1987;Rueschemeyer 1973;Kalberg 1994Kalberg , 2014Savelsberg and King 2005). 3 And, indeed, empirical work shows national particularities in the way Western governments (K. Power 2002) and NGO actors (Stroup 2012) respond to genocide and mass atrocities.…”

Institutional Legacies and Firm Dynamics: The Growth and Internationalization of UK and German Law Firms

“…In Germany, lawyers came to form a profession that was more state-sponsored (Abel and Lewis 1988;McClelland 1991). The predominance of codified and comprehensive civil law regulations concerning trade and economy, coupled with the authoritarian approach of Prussian statehood, meant that law in the unified German state had much more the nature of an unquestioned order with which citizens had to comply than it did in England (Rüeschemeyer 1973;Halliday and Karpik 1998).…”

Legal Counsel, Power, and Institutional Hegemony

“…As a result, legal guarantees of the fulfillment of promises are sought, leading contractual arrangements to become increasingly adap'ted to the expected reaction of the courts. 42 The role of advocate becomes transformed by a new set of dominant institutions. "The needs of the market place articulated by independent legal experts will create strong pressures for legal development and rationalization.…”