ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between social values and law. It presents the incorporation of the consequences of globalization in a broad range of legal activities. The dispassionate and critical external study of a system of law, at which the comparative method aims, enables to form some estimate of the relative value of various parts or principles of our law in its function as a social institution. The ‘hard’ form of deregulation either removes regulation altogether or never allows it to exist in the first place. The development and spread of United States style law firms is appearing as an influence on both provision of legal services and legal training. Legal education can encourage law students to look at how the legal system works to empower or disempower underrepresented people. Social activists are having to become increasingly ‘more global about the local’.
