The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society (Cambridge Univ. Press, May, 2017) edited by David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, and David M. Trubek. Copies of The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization will be available for sale and Professors Wilkins and Khanna will be available for signing books at the end of the talk. This talk is co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and the Harvard University South Asia Institute.
Thursday, September 28, 2017 at noon, with lunch
Harvard Law School Room WCC 2036 Milstein East A/B (Campus Map & Directions)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
About The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
“This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the Indian legal profession. Employing a range of original data from twenty empirical studies, the book details the emergence of a new corporate legal sector in India including large and sophisticated law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as legal process outsourcing companies. As the book’s authors document, this new corporate legal sector is reshaping other parts of the Indian legal profession, including legal education, the development of pro bono and corporate social responsibility, the regulation of legal services, and gender, communal, and professional hierarchies with the bar. Taken as a whole, the book will be of interest to academics, lawyers, and policymakers interested in the critical role that a rapidly globalizing legal profession is playing in the legal, political, and economic development of important emerging economies like India, and how these countries are integrating into the institutions of global governance and the overall global market for legal services.” — Cambridge University Press
Panelists
David B. Wilkins
Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Vikramaditya S. Khanna
William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Faculty Director of the Directors’ College for Global Business and Law, and co-director of the Joint Center for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy, at the University of Michigan Law School
Commentator
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard University