@article{840018,
      recid = {840018},
      author = {Cummings, Scott L.,},
      title = {The paradox of professionalism lawyers and the possibility  of justice / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xii, 324 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a  just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper  understanding of the relationship between lawyers'  commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on  interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores  whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully  contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical  advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors,  some of the world's leading scholars of the legal  profession, offer evidence that although justice is  possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and  what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers  respond to, and reshape, the political and economic  conditions in which they practise. As the essays  demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as  lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it  is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena,  workplace and law school - to contest it"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/840018},
}