Legal Professionals and Development Strategies: Corporate Lawyers and the Construction of the Telecoms Sector in Brazil (1980s–2010s)

IF 1.4 2区社会学 Q1 LAW Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation Pub Date : 2017-07-21 DOI:10.1111/lsi.12310

Fabio de Sá e Silva, David M. Trubek

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This study explores the role of corporate lawyers in the construction and operation of a key area of the Brazilian economy over a thirty-year period. It looks at three periods in the history of the Brazilian telecoms sector: the fall of state monopoly; global restructuring, neoliberalism, and privatization; and the recent resurgence of state activism. In the first two periods, lawyers worked to facilitate privatization and to create a lightly regulated market for telecoms services that attracted foreign capital. Things changed, however, when the industry was faced with new industrial and social policies. In this period, lawyers oscillated between resisting government intrusion and negotiating engagement with regulators. This sequence of events encompasses changes in the field of state power, hierarchies in the legal profession, and core-periphery relations, which invite new syntheses of existing theoretical traditions about law, lawyers, and capitalist development in emerging economies.

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法律专业人员与发展战略:巴西公司律师与电信行业建设(1980 - 2010年代)

本研究探讨了公司律师在巴西经济的一个关键领域的建设和运营中的作用，为期30年。它考察了巴西电信业历史上的三个时期:国家垄断的衰落;全球结构调整、新自由主义和私有化;以及最近国家行动主义的复苏。在前两个时期，律师们致力于促进私有化，并为吸引外国资本的电信服务创建一个监管宽松的市场。然而，当该行业面临新的产业和社会政策时，情况发生了变化。在此期间，律师们在抵制政府干预和与监管机构谈判之间摇摆不定。这一系列事件包括国家权力领域的变化，法律职业的等级制度，以及核心-边缘关系，这就需要对新兴经济体中关于法律、律师和资本主义发展的现有理论传统进行新的综合。

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