Travers1994

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Travers1994
BibType ARTICLE
Key Travers1994
Author(s) Max Travers
Title The phenomenon of the radical lawyer
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Tag(s) EMCA, radicalism, lawyer, solicitor
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Year 1994
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Journal Sociology
Volume 28
Number 1
Pages 245–258
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DOI 10.1177/0038038594028001015
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Abstract

This paper adopts an ethnomethodological approach towards the study of radicalism in legal professional practice, focusing on the ways in which radicalism was produced, displayed and exhibited in the talk and actions of a small firm of solicitors situated in one of the inner city areas of a large city in northern England. Three aspects of radicalism are examined: radicalism as a public phenomenon; radicalism as a contestable phenomenon; and radicalism as a moral framework. It is suggested that this analytic approach has implications for the way we might study other forms of contemporary radicalism, and for the way in which radicals in the academy theorise and understand the world of the radical lawyer.

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