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11 - Globalization of the Legal Profession and Regulation of Law Practice in India: The “Foreign Entry” Debate

from Section IV - Regulation and Foreign Competition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

David B. Wilkins
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School
David M. Trubek
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society
, pp. 363 - 394
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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