<affiliation><mods:affiliation>Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. This article was prepared with the'aid of a grant from the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines at the London School of Economics. The article grows out of a conference held in Bellagio, Italy, by the Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions, a component of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association. The conference was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. A version of this article will appear in Richard L. Abel & Philip Lewis, eds., Lawyers in Society: A Comparative Approach, vol. 3, Comparative and Theoretical Studies (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).</mods:affiliation>
<wicri:noCountry code="subField">forthcoming).</wicri:noCountry>
</affiliation>
