Apologies for missing ths in December. This may actually be quite an interesting read to try and understanf India’s fear of bringing in global law firms to their legal sector
In December, the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession (CLP) hosted two major events in India to celebrate the publication of
The book is the product of the Center’s project on Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies. GLEE examines how globalization is reshaping the market for legal services in important emerging economies, such as India, Brazil, and China, and how these developments are contributing to the transformation of the political economy in these countries and the reshaping of the global legal services market.
Edited by Harvard Law School Professor David B. Wilkins ’80, University of Michigan Professor Vikramaditya S. Khanna S.J.D. ’97 and David M. Trubek, Center on the Legal Profession Senior Research Fellow and Voss-Bascom Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the impact on globalization on the Indian legal profession. It was published in May 2017 by Cambridge University Press.
Wilkins, vice dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession and faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, said: “One of the things that we promised when we were doing the research, was that when the book was published we would return to India and share our findings with key members of the Indian legal community. We not only shared the findings of the book, but we also engaged these leading lawyers or policymakers in a conversation about the future of the Indian legal profession and how understanding its history is an important stepping stone or building block to understanding where the Indian legal profession and India itself is headed in the coming decades. We also had a chance to present the book to India’s minister of law and justice as well as his three top deputies, a reflection of the importance that the legal profession has within the country.”
More at https://today.law.harvard.edu/indian-legal-profession-age-globalization/
