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Title:Lawyers in the Third World: comparative and developmental perspectives
Editor:Dias, C.J.ISNI
Year:1981
Issue:3
Pages:400
Language:English
Series:Studies of law in social change and development (ISSN 0348-1964)
City of publisher:Uppsala
Publisher:Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
ISBN:9171061797; 9171061762
Geographic terms:developing countries
Sudan
Ghana
Kenya
Tanzania
Subject:legal practitioners
Abstract:The underlying reason for this book is a concern about the social impact of legal professions on 'development' and 'underdevelopment' and on the capacity of the mass of people in the countries studied (who are poor by any standards) to use law to better their social condition. An overview essay discusses different paradigms which have influenced thinking about development and the significance of lawyers in it, and different approaches which may affect the study and evaluation of legal professions. A collection of empirical and historical studies of lawyers in various Third World countries comes next. The African countries dealt with are Ghana (R. LUCKHAM; B.D. HOUGHTON), Kenya and Tanzania (Yash P. GHAI; A.O. ODENYO; Medard R.K. RWELAMIRA), and Sudan (Salman M.A. SALMAN). The concluding chapters provide comparative, historical and other social perspectives on the legal profession in the Third World.
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