This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the legal profession in India.

Section 1. Setting the Stage: 1. An introduction to globalization, lawyers, and emerging economies: the case of India David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna and David M. Trubek; 2. Overview of India and the Indian legal profession Arpita Gupta, Vikramaditya S. Khanna and David B. Wilkins; Section 2. The Growth of the Corporate Core: 3. Mapping India's corporate law firm sector Ashish Nanda, David B. Wilkins and Bryon Fong; 4. Globalization and the rise of the in-house counsel movement in India David B. Wilkins and Vikramaditya S. Khanna; 5. The impact of globalization on cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the legal profession in India Umakanth Varottil; Section 3. New Actors and Functions within the Corporate Core: 6. Being your own boss: the career trajectories and motivations of India's newest corporate lawyers Jayanth K. Krishnan and Patrick W. Thomas; 7. Women in India's 'global' law firms: comparative gender frames and the advantage of new organizations Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen; 8. Pro bono and the corporate legal sector in India Arpita Gupta; 9. How India's corporate law firms influence legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks Bhargavi Zaveri; Section 4. Regulation and Foreign Competition: 10. Theories of law firm globalization in the shadow of colonialism: a cultural and institutional analysis of English and Indian corporate law firms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries John Flood; 11. Globalization of the legal profession and regulation of law practice in India: the 'foreign entry' debate Aditya Singh; 12. Festina lente or disguised protectionism?: monopoly and competition in the Indian legal profession Rahul Singh; Section 5. Old Lawyers, New Lawyers, and Transforming Roles: 13. The evolving global supply chain for legal services: India's role as a critical link Vikramaditya S. Khanna; 14. Grand advocates: the traditional elite lawyers Marc Galanter and Nick Robinson; 15. Aggregation of land for a growing and globalizing economy: the role of small-town lawyers in India Pavan Mamidi; Section 6. Legal Education: 16. Responding to the market: the impact of the rise of corporate law firms on elite legal education in India Jonathan Gingerich and Nick Robinson; 17. The anatomy of legal recruitment in India: tracing the tracks of globalization Jonathan Gingerich, Vikramaditya Khanna and Aditya Singh; 18. The making of legal elites and the IDIA of justice Shamnad Basheer, K. V. Krishnaprasad, Sree Mitra and Prajna Mohapatra; 19. Experiments in legal education in India: Jindal Global Law School and private nonprofit legal education C. Raj Kumar; Section 7. Capacity Building: 20. Equalizing access to the WTO: how Indian trade lawyers build state capacity Gregory Shaffer, James Nedumpara, Aseema Sinha and Amrita Bahri; 21. Indian corporations, the administrative state, and the rise of Indian trade remedies Mark Wu; 22. Rising India in investment arbitration: shifts in the legal field and regime participation Mihaela Papa and Aditya Sarkar.