Richard Abel (lawyer)

Richard Abel
Born	September 13, 1941 (1941-09-13) (age 84) New York, New York
Occupation	Lawyer

Richard L. Abel (born September 13, 1941) ^[1] is a professor of law (now emeritus), a specialist in African Law Studies and a renowned socio-legal scholar. He received his B.A. from Harvard University (1962), his LL.B. from Columbia University (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1974) where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has been a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law since 1974. ^[2] He is a past president of the Law and Society Association and editor of the Law & Society Review . ^[3]

Selected publications

• "Contesting Legality in the United States After September 11", in Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, edited by Terence Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm Feeley (Onati International Series in Law and Society). Oxford (2008).
• English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003).
• Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998).
• Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle Against Apartheid, 1980–1994 (1995);
• (edited with Philip S.C. Lewis) Lawyers in Society. An Overview. (1995).
• "Transnational Law Practice", 44 Case Western Reserve Law Review (1993), 737;
• The Politics of Informal Justice (editor, 1982).
• (with William Felstiner and Austin sarat) "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming" 15 Law & Society Review, (1980), 631.

References

1. Duffy, J.; Hevelin, J.; Osterreicher, S. (1981). International directory of scholars and specialists in Third World studies. Crossroads Press. ISBN   9780918456403 . Retrieved 2014-10-11.
2. "UCLA Law". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
3. "Abel, Richard | UCLA Law". law.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-26.

External links

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