List of Contributors

Introduction: Towards a Cultural History of Lawyers

David Sugarman

W Wesley Pue

Part I: The Formation of Lawyers

Ritual, Majesty and Mystery: Collective Life and Culture among English Barristers, Serjeants and Judges, c.1500--c. 1830

David Lemmings

'A Dry and Revolting Study': the Life and Labours of Antebellum Law Students

Ann Fidler

Part II: Lawyers and the Liberal State

'Finland's Route' of Professionalisation and Lawyer-Officials

Esa Konttinen

Juridicalisation, Professionalisation and the Occupational Culture of the Advocate in the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth centuries: A Comparison of Germany, Italy and Switzerland

Hannes Siegrist

From `Rechstaat' to `Welfare State': Swedish Judicial Culture in Transition 1870--1970

Kjell A Modeer

Part III: Work and Representations

The Problems of Wealth and Virtue: The Paris Bar and the Generation of the Fin-de-Siecle

John Savage

Text and Subtext: French Lawyers' Fees in the Nineteenth Century

Jean-Louis Halperin

He Would Have Made a Wonderful Solicitor: Law, Modernity and Professionalism in Brain Stoker's Dracula

Anne McGillivray

The Syndicat de la Magistrature, 1968--1978: Elements in the History of French White Collar Professional Unionism

David Applebaum

Part IV: Lawyers and Colonialism

Together We Fall, Divided We Stand: the Victorian Legal Profession in Crisis 1890--1940

Rob McQueen

Cultural Chasm: `Mennonite' Lawyers in Western Canada, 1900--1939

Harold Dick

Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession

W Wesley Pue