The Legal Profession as an Organization: Understanding Changes in Civil and Common Law

Ugo Mattei
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Ugo Mattei: Hastings College of the Law

No 1141, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series from Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics

Abstract: Coparative lawyers have long maintained that understanding the culture and the organization of the legal profession is key to effective understanding of any legal system. How the legal profession thinks is a key factor affecting the deep structure of the sources of the law. How the legal profession is organized is a key institutional factor in understanding the way in which legal systems develop and change. This paper will attempt to explore how the legal profession organizes itself in adapting to the institutional setting. In doing so, it will borrow from economic theory (neo-institutional economics) the idea of an organization as an entity adapting (more or less efficiently) to the institutional setting. Contact the Law and Economics Program at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 for a copy of this paper.

Date: 1996-04-30
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