This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization's impact on the Brazilian legal profession. Employing original data from nine empirical studies, the book details how Brazil's need to restructure its economy and manage its global relationships contributed to the emergence of a new 'corporate legal sector' - a sector marked by increasingly large and sophisticated law firms and in-house legal departments. This corporate legal sector in turn helped to reshape other parts of the Brazilian legal profession, including legal education, pro bono practices, the regulation of legal services, and the state's legal capacity in international economic law. The book, the second in a series on Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies, will be of interest to academics, lawyers, and policymakers concerned with the role that a rapidly globalizing legal profession is playing in the development of key emerging economies, and how these countries are integrating into the global market for legal services.
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Brings together experts from North and South to examine the impact of globalization on the corporate legal environment in Brazil.
1. Globalization, lawyers and emerging economics: the case of Brazil
Luciana Gross Cunha, Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, José Garcez Ghirardi, David M.
Trubek and David B. Wilkins;
2. Corporate law firms: the Brazilian case
Daniela Monteiro Gabbay, Luciana Ramos and Ligia Pinto Sica;
3. In-house
counsels in Brazil: careers, professional profiles, and new roles Fabiana
Luci de Oliveira and Luciana Ramos;
4. South by Southeast: comparing the
development of in-house legal department in Brazil and India David B. Wilkins
and Vikramaditya S. Khanna;
5. Globalizing processes for São Paulo attorneys:
gender stratification in law firms and law-related businesses Maria da Gloria
Bonelli and Camila de Pieri Benedito;
6. The Ordem dos Advogados do Brazil
and the politics of professional regulation in Brazil Frederico de Almeida
and Paulo André Nassar;
7. Doing well and doing good in an emerging economy:
the social organization of pro bono Among corporate lawyers and law firms in
São Paulo, Brazil Fabio de Sa e Silva;
8. Legal education in Brazil: the
challenges and opportunities of a changing context Luciana Gross Cunha and
José Garcez Ghirardi;
9. Transforming legal capacity in Brazil: international
trade law and the myth of a booming practice Rubens Glezer, Vitor M. Dias,
Adriane Sanctis de Brito and Rafael A. F. Zanatta;
10. Lawyering in new
developmentalism: legal professionals and the construction of the telecom
sector in the emerging Brazil (1980s2010s) Fabio de Sa e Silva and David M.
Trubek.
Luciana Gross Cunha is a professor and the Associate Dean of the Center for Applied Legal Research at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo. Daniela Monteiro Gabbay is Professor of Civil Procedure, Strategies and Mediation at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo. José Garcez Ghirardi is a professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Sao Paulo, where he acted as the methodology coordinator from 200910. He is an accredited member of the Brazilian Bar Association. David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
