Abstract

Abstract This is a historical sketch of the Prussian Bar spanning two centuries. Its analytic purpose is to explore how an authoritarian, modernizing state and a late-developing capitalist economy shaped the dispensation of legal counsel and how in response lawyers sought to restructure their professional organization, attempts that were part of a larger agenda of German liberalism. In a comparative perspective, Prussia is an extreme case. Yet extreme cases and their historical fate are analytically instructive.

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