ABSTRACT
This chapter is centered on three distinct but interrelated categories of professional legal actors: legal scholars; law students; and lawyers. The analysis offered here engages with the – still scarce, but increasingly important – contemporary law and society scholarship on legal professionals in the region, and also tries to provide critical assessment of the breadth and scope of such literature. Furthermore, this chapter situates the scholarship on Latin American legal professionals within the comparative debate on the relationship of professional legal actors vis-à-vis the social, political, and economic realities where they operate.
