The Role of Solicitors in Divorce Proceedings*

Murch, Mervyn

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.1978.tb00784.x

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“…Although the majority of studies have shown that most family lawyers can be classified as mediators (see e.g. Griffiths, 1986;Sarat and Felstiner 1995), others have indicated that the two groups are roughly equal in size (Murch, 1977;Kressel, Hochberg and Meth, 1983). The interviews with lawyers for my study were too limited in number to offer any conclusive insight on this issue in the Israeli context; however, the minimal amount of custody and visitation actions found in the court files examined is evidence of the absence of confrontational litigious strategies, at least with respect to these issues.…”

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A legal field in action: the case of divorce arrangements in Israel

Hacker

2008

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper suggests a theoretical and methodological framework that integrates Bourdieu’s conception of the juridical field with Mnookin and Kornhauser’s claim of the centrality of the action occurring in the shadow of the law. This framework is constructed based on a study of the Israeli legal field governing divorce that included the analysis of 360 divorce files and in-depth interviews with more than 40 divorcees and legal and therapeutic professionals. The study allows a rare exploration of a legal field in action, including the main positions within the field and the power relations between them, as well as the field’s boundaries and game rules. The findings illustrate the importance of Bourdieu’s fields theory if and when opened up to the informal dimensions of law and demonstrate the potential of the suggested framework to the sociological understanding of law in action.

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Section: Lawyers and Their Clientsmentioning

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A legal field in action: the case of divorce arrangements in Israel

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2008

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The Role of Solicitors in Divorce Proceedings*

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A legal field in action: the case of divorce arrangements in Israel

A legal field in action: the case of divorce arrangements in Israel

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