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45 Alta. L. Rev. 29 (2007-2008)
Cowboy Jurists and the Making of Legal Professionalism

handle is hein.journals/alblr45 and id is 1173 raw text is: COWBOY JURISTS AND THE MAKING OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM 29 COWBOY JURISTS AND THE MAKING OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM W. WESLEY PUE* This article discusses the novelty of the concept of lawyers'professionalism in the twentieth century. The author discusses the evolution of the structure of legal professionalism in the early twentieth century, outlining the social context in which these changes occurred. Significant reforms were implemented, affecting such matters as the qualifications of lawyers, education and admission to the profession, professional ethics, and the regulatorypowers ofthe professional organizations. The author concludes that twentieth-century professionalism in Canada emerged as a cultural project, undoubtedly influenced by political andsocial change, as opposed to pure market-based motivations. II. llI. IV. iV. V. VII. VIII. IX. x. XI. XII. XlII. Cet article porte sur la nouveaut6 du concept de professionnalisme des avocats au vingtikme si&cle. L 'auteur discute de I'6volution de la structure de professionnalisme juridique au dibut du vingtiime sikcle, en donnant les grandes lignes du contexte social dans lequel ces changements se sont produits. D 'importantes rdformes ont & mises enplace affectant, entre autres, la qualification des avocats, I 'dducation et 1 'entre dans la profession ainsi que la diontologie et les pouvoirs de rdglementation des organismes professionnels. L 'auteur conclut que le professionnalisme du vingtikme sikcle au Canada a 6merg6 en tant que projet culturel, sans aucun doute influenc davantage par le changement politique et social que par des motivations purement bastes sur le marchi. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................... 30 THE NOVELTY OF LAWYERS' PROFESSIONALISM ..................... 30 STRUCTURES AND CULTURES OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM ............ 31 DOMINION AND EMPIRE ........................................ 32 REMAKING CANADIAN LEGAL PROFESSIONALISM .................... 34 QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION, AND ADMISSION ...................... 35 LAW SOCIETIES ............................................... 36 LAW SOCIETIES' ROLES ........................................ 36 A . ETHICS POLICING ......................................... 36 B. ADMISSION AND EDUCATION ................................. 37 C . D ISCIPLIN E .............................................. 39 D. ASSERTING MONOPOLY ..................................... 41 REMAKING THE LEGAL PROFESSION: SUMMARY ..................... 42 CANADA: AN AMERICAN NATION ................................ 43 OBVIOUS UNSUITABILITY OF OTHER MODELS ....................... 45 KEYSTONE OF SOCIAL COHESION .................................. 49 C ONCLUSION ................................................. 50 A. THEORIES OF PROFESSIONALIZATION ........................... 50 B. LAWYERS' HISTORIES AND CULTURAL HISTORY ................. 52 Professor, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. This is a modified version of W. Wesley Pue, Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession in W. Wesley Pue & David Sugarman, eds., Lawyers and Vampires: Cultural Histories of Legal Professions (Portland, Or.: Hart, 2003) 367.

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