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Occupation
  
Lawyer

Name
  
Richard (lawyer)

Role
  
Lawyer


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Born
  
September 13, 1941 (age 82) (
1941-09-13
)
New York, New York

Education
  
Harvard University, Columbia University, University of London

Books
  
Lawyers in Society, American lawyers, English Lawyers between, The Law and Society R, Speaking respect - respectin

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Richard L. Abel (born September 13, 1941) 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). He has been a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law since 1974. He is a past president of the Law and Society Association and editor of the Law & Society Review.

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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

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