Role of Law in Transnational Developments of Liberal Democracy

全球性的变化，如商业的国际化， 对法律的职业组织产生了重大影响。 在 与此同时，法律的职业，像其他职业一样， 超越国界，影响跨国运动， 包括开放市场和民主治理的趋势。 这项会议资助汇集了一支国际团队， 社会学家和历史学家研究历史参与， 与自由主义有关的跨国运动中的法律的职业 民主治理。具体来说，研究小组，来自 北美和欧洲，制定合作研究战略 来调查一个不断发展的法律的 专业和民主治理的不正常扩大， 并完成一系列论文， 与这些交叉点有关的问题。 研究法律的专业人员参与社会和 政治运动在很大程度上局限于地方和国家 设置. 这个团队项目将通过以下方式增加跨国动态 研究该行业参与的历史案例， 政治的普遍化和地方化之间的斗争 与自由民主治理相关的运动。 这些 研究为设计一个模型来调查 法律的职业在当代政治中的作用 转型，特别是东欧、南 美国和非洲。 因此，该项目提供了新的 研究政治参与的历史背景 法律的职业，以及调查该职业 在新一轮政治变革中， 既有跨国的，也有本地的。

Global changes, such as the internationalization of business, have a major impact on the organization of the legal profession. At the same time, the legal profession, like other professions that transcend national boundaries, influences transnational movements, including the trend towards open markets and democratic governance. This conference grant brings together an international team of sociologists and historians to study the historical engagement of the legal profession in transnational movements related to liberal democratic governance. Specifically, the research team, drawn from North America and Europe, devise a collaborative research strategy to investigate the intersections between an evolving legal profession and the irregular expansion of democratic governance, and complete a series of papers addressing a common set of questions related to these intersections. The study of the engagement of the legal profession in social and political movements has largely been confined to local and national settings. This team project will add a transnational dynamic by examining historical instances of the profession's involvement with the struggle between universalizing and localizing political movements associated with liberal democratic governance. These studies provide the basis for devising a model to investigate the role of legal professions in contemporary political transformations, especially those underway in Eastern Europe, South America, and Africa. Therefore, the project provides a new historical context for studying the political engagement of the legal profession, and a model for investigating the profession's engagment in a new wave of political transformations underway that have both transnational and local roots.