Lawyers and the rule of law in an era of globalization / edited by Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Lawyers, law, and society / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth -- Greasing the squeaky wheel of justice : networks of Venezuelan lawyers from the pacted democracy to the Bolivarian revolution / Manuel A. Gómez -- Lawyers, political embeddedness, and institutional continuity in China's transititon from socialism / Ethan Michelson -- Italian legal elites : the classical model and its transformation / Maria Malatesta -- Human rights and the rule of law in Argentina : transnational advocacy networks and the transformation of the national legal field / Virginia Vecchioli -- Criminal procedure reform in Chile : new agents and the restructuring of a field / Daniel Palacios Muñoz -- The European Union and the United States in Eastern Europe : two ways of exporting law, expertise and state power / Ole Hammerslev -- Toward a sociology of the global rule of law field : neoliberalism, neoconstitutionalisms, and the contest over judicial reform in Latin America / César Rodríguez-Garavito -- The reform of the profession of lawyers in Japan and its impact on the role of law / Kay-Wah Chan -- The democratization and internationalization of the Korean legal field / Kim Seong-Hyun -- Searching for political liberalism in all the wrong places : the legal profession in China as the leading edge of political reform? / Randall Peerenboom -- Conclusion : How to convert social capital into legal capital and transfer legitimacy across the major practice divide / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.