Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107123658 ISBN 13 : 9781107123656

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Spencer Headworth is Graduate Research Coordinator at the American Bar Foundation and a Ph.D. candidate in Northwestern University's Department of Sociology. He studies crime and social control, law, inequality, organizations, and professions. His dissertation, 'Policing Welfare', examines dedicated welfare fraud control units, a novel intersection between the worlds of public benefits and law enforcement.

Robert L. Nelson is the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession at the American Bar Foundation and Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, Illinois. He studies law, inequality, and the legal profession. He is the author of Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America (with William Bridges, Cambridge, 1999), which won the best book award from the American Sociological Association. From 2004–15, Nelson served as Director of the American Bar Foundation.

Ronit Dinovitzer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and is cross-appointed to the Institute for Management and Innovation. Her work focuses on the social structure of the legal profession and on professional ethics. Ronit is a Faculty Fellow of the American Bar Foundation where she is a co-investigator on 'After the JD', the first national longitudinal study of US law graduates, and she has now completed the first national survey of Canadian law graduates.

David B. Wilkins is Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts. He is a globally recognized scholar on the legal profession, having written over eighty articles and coauthored one of the leading casebooks in the field. Professor Wilkins is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107123658
• ISBN 13: 9781107123656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 454
• Éditeur: Headworth Spencer, Nelson Robert L., Dinovitzer Ronit, Wilkins David B.
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