This chapter explores how reforms in the recruitment of self-governing lawyer councils between 1989 and 2017 expanded access to the legal profession and improved the availability of legal services through a 15-year process of social and legal change.
Structure of the Legal Profession
Smith (1978), The Soviet Procuracy and the Supervision of Administration
Monograph analyzing the evolution and role of prosecutors in the Soviet Union.
Kucherov (1953), Courts, Lawyers and Trials under the Last Three Tsars
A historical look at the 19th-century Russian legal profession, highlighting anarchist trials and how lawyers used jury nullification to win acquittals.
Butler (2011), The Russian Legal Practitioner
Tracks the evolution of the legal profession in Russia. Includes a translation of the post-Soviet law on the legal profession.
Hendley and Solomon, Jr. (2024), The Judicial System of Russia
Overview of the Russian courts. Includes chapters dealing with political cases and the legal profession.
Sommerlad, Abel, and Hammerslev (2022), Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories
Since 1988, global shifts—driven by neoliberalism, globalization, technological change, and the fall of the Soviet bloc—have transformed the legal profession, prompting a comparative analysis of its structure, roles, and challenges across issues like diversity, ethics, access to justice, and legal education.
Glendon (1996), A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society
Glendon outlines the changes within the legal system and offers her assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture.