The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the Indian legal profession. Employing a range of original data from twenty empirical studies, the book details the emergence of a new corporate legal sector in India including large and sophisticated law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as legal process outsourcing companies. As the book's authors document, this new corporate legal sector is reshaping other parts of the Indian legal profession, including legal education, the development of pro bono and corporate social responsibility, the regulation of legal services, and gender, communal, and professional hierarchies with the bar. Taken as a whole, the book will be of interest to academics, lawyers, and policymakers interested in the critical role that a rapidly globalizing legal profession is playing in the legal, political, and economic development of important emerging economies like India, and how these countries are integrating into the institutions of global governance and the overall global market for legal services.

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.

David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Vikramaditya S. Khanna is the William W. Cook Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Directors' College for Global Business and Law, and co-director of the Joint Center for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy, at the University of Michigan Law School.
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts.