ABSTRACT

Examines the ongoing efforts of lawyers and allied professionals to construct, police and redefine their boundaries. Focusing on the newly emerging large multinationals, it explores the relationship between professions, the economy and the state.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Professional competition and the social construction of transnational markets

part |111 pages

Part I

chapter |27 pages

Technological warfare

The Battle to Control the Mergers and Acquisitions Market in Europe

chapter |22 pages

German corporate lawyers

Social closure in autopoietic perspective

part |136 pages

Part II

chapter |31 pages

The cultures of globalization

Professional Restructuring for the International Market

chapter |35 pages

Process and policy of legal professionalization in Europe

The Deconstruction of a Normative Order

chapter |21 pages

Bank lawyers

A Professional Group Holding the Reins of Power

chapter |12 pages

Who colonized whom?

Historical Reflections on the Intersection between Law, Lawyers and Accountants in England