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This Article examines the pressures of globalization on the practice of law and legal ethics from an Australian perspective. The Article first examines the positive aspects of globalization and then turns to the potentially disruptive and homogenizing aspects of globalization upon indigenous and non-Western societies. Next, the Article considers how globalization threatens to disrupt tradition and culture in Western societies, specifically focusing on the tradition of the law and legal practice. Finally, the Author discusses the response of the Australian legal profession to the demands of globalization. The Author examines changes that have been implemented to the legal practice and the structure of the legal services market, particularly in the state of New South Wales. The Article concludes by predicting that globalization has the potential for undermining legal ethics.
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Steven Mark,
Harmonization or Homogenization? The Globalization of Law and Legal Ethics--An Australian Viewpoint,
34 Vanderbilt Law Review
1173
(2021)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol34/iss4/10
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