Counsel in the Caucasus : Professionalization and Law in Georgia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Law in Eastern Europe Series ; v.54 .
- Law in Eastern Europe Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Political Map of the Caucasus -- Map of Georgian Cities -- Common Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Is There a Post-Soviet Legal Profession in Georgia? -- Chapter Outline -- Field-work -- Chapter 1. Approaching Georgian Lawyers -- Legal Professions (or the Study of Western Lawyers) -- Soviet Lawyers -- Post-Soviet Lawyers -- Accounting for the Georgian Difference -- Chapter 2. Georgian Legal Histories -- Introduction -- Indigenous Georgian Law -- The Tsarist Period -- Menshevik Georgia (1918-1921) -- Soviet Period -- Soviet Law and Lawyering (with Georgian Twists) -- Beyond Soviet Law and Lawyering:Georgian Non-State Law -- Perestroika -- Early Independence -- Chapter 3. The Legal Environment -- Regionalism -- Formal Law and Its Implementation -- Constitutional and Judicial Reforms -- Lawmaking -- Human Rights and Corruption -- Non-State Law -- Chapter 4. Legal Education -- Educating Lawyers -- The Numbers Boom -- Formal Legal Education -- Beyond Law School: Preparing Law Graduates for Practice -- Access to the Profession -- Educating the Public -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Regulation and Self-Regulation -- State Regulation -- The Players -- The Process -- Self-Regulation -- Restricting Supply -- Controlling Practice -- Prognosis for the Law on the Bar -- Chapter 6. Stratification and Professional Badges -- Stratification -- Mtatsminda Legal Consultation Bureau (LCB) -- The Firm-Georgia Consulting Group (GCG) -- Other Legal Occupations -- Professional Badges: Collegiality and Prestige -- Chapter 7. Comparisons with Armenia and Azerbaijan -- A Regional Legal History? -- Law and the Armenian Diaspora -- Azerbaijan's Late Statehood -- The Legal Environment -- Legal Education -- Regulation and Self-Regulation -- Armenia -- Azerbaijan. Stratification and Professionalization:"Musicians at a Funeral"? -- Conclusion: Professionalization and the Rule of Law -- Profession on the Rise -- Summary of Empirical Findings -- Implications for Studies of the Legal Profession -- Implications for the Rule of Law -- Type One Reforms-Changing the Laws -- Type Two Reforms-Institutions -- Type Three Reforms-Government Compliance with Law -- Lawyers and the Demand for Law -- Cited Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
This book traces the development of the rule of law in Georgia since its independence and speculates on its future direction.
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Practice of law-Georgia (Republic). Lawyers-Georgia (Republic).