Barreau traditionnaliste contre barreau d’affaires : Le barreau de Bruxelles face la question des avocats-administrateurs de sociétés (1880-1925)
The legal profession is structured around a specific collective identity. During the second half of the 19th century, this identity is defended by a particularly dynamic group of lawyers, who defend a "traditional" perspective of the legal profession. It is based on the ethical corpus inhe...
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| Language: | English |
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Criminocorpus
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/3403 |
| Summary: | The legal profession is structured around a specific collective identity. During the second half of the 19th century, this identity is defended by a particularly dynamic group of lawyers, who defend a "traditional" perspective of the legal profession. It is based on the ethical corpus inherited from the Napoleonic era. Economic and industrial development lead to the increase of commercial companies. As experts in law, the lawyers are called to advice and integrate the directorial boards. This extension of the lawyer's field activities to the economic sphere is considered by the traditionalist bar as a violation of ethical principles, especially the principle of lawyer independence and the prohibition of commercial activities. This issue becomes between 1880 and 1925 an object of very sharp tensions in the Brussels Bar. The traditionalist bar considers this extension of activities as a weakening of the values that shape the professional identity of the lawyer and hence a risk to the survival itself of the profession of lawyer. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6907 |