Sociology of law and legal profession

By:

Sharma, K.L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Jaipur; Rawat Pub.; 1984Description: 222pSubject(s):

Sociology

DDC classification:

305.55 SHA

Summary: The present book is an outcome of a research Programme carried out at Jaipur, Capital of Rajasthan, India. It is all about relations between lawyers of this city and their clients. The study is based on information regarding socialization, professionalization, stratification and networks of lawyers as well as their clients. Information and data were collected from secondary sources for having a historical under standing of law and legal profession in India in general and in Rajasthan : Jaipur in particular. In the present study questions raised are related to social stratification among lawyers; how they are identified as 'superior" and 'inferior' within the Bar, and what criteria are used for making such a distinction; how does a differential clientele milieu affect hierarchy among lawyers, and what strains affect solidarity and the performance among lawyers. Since socialization and the nature of professionalisation of lawyers are closely related to each other, we have analysed the recruitment and training of the lawyers from the point of their social back ground. In considering these questions an understanding of the structure and process of relations between lawyers and clients in view of their respective social backgrounds has been sought. The present study examines the nature and role of Bar council, law education, apprenticeship and networks in regard to practitioners of law. The points that lay yers in India are "swindlers" and sharks'; that law in India has a colonial legacy despite the fact that lawyers contributed a lot to the struggle for freedom in the pre independence period; that legal profession has a great deal of autonomy but its practitioners are bound by primordial and political constraints have been carefully investigated. The study also examines why law firms or corporate legal practice have not emerged in India. Is the Indian lawyer 'limitational', 'individualistic" and "unprofessional? An examination of the historicity of Indian society reveals the 'un historicity of Indian lawyers. A lawyer in India is not a Social engineer' as he is in England.

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The present book is an outcome of a research Programme carried out at Jaipur, Capital of Rajasthan, India. It is all about relations between lawyers of this city and their clients. The study is based on information regarding socialization, professionalization, stratification and networks of lawyers as well as their clients. Information and data were collected from secondary sources for having a historical under standing of law and legal profession in India in general and in Rajasthan : Jaipur in particular.

In the present study questions raised are related to social stratification among lawyers; how they are identified as 'superior" and 'inferior' within the Bar, and what criteria are used for making such a distinction; how does a differential clientele milieu affect hierarchy among lawyers, and what strains affect solidarity and the performance among lawyers. Since socialization and the nature of professionalisation of lawyers are closely related to each other, we have analysed the recruitment and training of the lawyers from the point of their social back ground. In considering these questions an understanding of the structure and process of relations between lawyers and clients in view of their respective social backgrounds has been sought.

The present study examines the nature and role of Bar council, law education, apprenticeship and networks in regard to practitioners of law. The points that lay yers in India are "swindlers" and sharks'; that law in India has a colonial legacy despite the fact that lawyers contributed a lot to the struggle for freedom in the pre independence period; that legal profession has a great deal of autonomy but its practitioners are bound by primordial and political constraints have been carefully investigated. The study also examines why law firms or corporate legal practice have not emerged in India. Is the Indian lawyer 'limitational', 'individualistic" and "unprofessional? An examination of the historicity of Indian society reveals the 'un historicity of Indian lawyers. A lawyer in India is not a Social engineer' as he is in England.

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