Description: List of illustrations; Hierarchy of courts; Glossary of legal and other terms; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The archimedean point: lawyers, liberalism, and the middle-class project; 2. Freie advokatur: the blending of the middle-class and professional projects; 3. Foundation of the modern profession: the private bar under the lawyer's statute; 4. Institutional framework: lawyers and Honoratiorenpolitik; 5. Growth and diversification: lawyers in the province of Hannover, 1878-1933; 6. Elites and professional ideology: self-discipline and self-administration by the Anwaltskammer Celle; 7. Simultaneous admission: the limits of Honoratiorenpolitik; 8. The limits of economic Liberalism: freie advokatur or numerus clausus?; 9. The limits of political Liberalism: lawyers and the Weimar state; 10. Conclusion: lawyers and the limits of Liberalism; Methodological appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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