Are there "too many lawyers"? This book addresses this question by country and globally, as well as the facts, reasons, consequences and solutions regarding the future of lawyers and legal practice.

Introduction: Too many lawyers? 1. What does and should influence the number of lawyers? 2. Too many lawyers? Or should lawyers be doing other things? 3. Unauthorized practice of law and the production of lawyers 4. The flood of US lawyers: natural fluctuation or professional climate change? 5. It's the law schools stupid! Explaining the continuing increase in the number of lawyers 6. Coping with the consequences of 'too many lawyers': securing the place of international graduate law students 7. Effects of the acceleration in the number of lawyers in Israel 8. The new knowledge economy and the transformation of the law discipline 9. Is access to the profession access to justice? Lessons from Canada 10. The 'overcrowding the profession' argument and the professional melting pot 11. Setting the limits: who controls the size of the legal profession in Japan? 12. Legal education in Spain: challenges and risks in devising access to the legal professions 13. The virtue of low barriers to becoming a lawyer: promoting liberal and democratic values 14. 'I love my American job': professional prestige in the Indian outsourcing industry and global consequences of an expanding legal profession