Lynn Mather S U N Y D I S TI N G U I S H E D S E RV I C E P R O F E S S O R E M E R ITA PhD, University of California, Irvine BA, University of California, Los Angeles
lmather@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
LEGAL PROFESSION
When and Why Do Lawyer
LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY
Organisations Seek to Influence Law?
COURTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
(with Leslie C. Levin) in Lawyers
LAW AND SOCIETY
in 21st-Century Societies,
What influences lawyers in
vol. 2 (Richard Abel et al., eds.,
their decisions at work and
Hart, forthcoming 2022).
how do those factors vary in
ARTICLES Communities of Scholars and
Client Selection: How Lawyers Reflect
Communities of Practice, 48 Journal
and Influence Community Values,
of Law and Society 25 (2021).
in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries &
different fields of legal practice? My research has explored these questions empirically in studies of lawyers working
Law: Revisiting “The Oven Bird’s What is a ‘Case’?, 11(2) Onati
Song” 82 (Mary Nell Trautner, ed.,
Socio-Legal Series 355 (2021).
Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Beyond the Guild: Lawyer Organizations
BOOK REVIEWS
and Law Making (with Leslie C. Levin)
Book Review, 46 Journal of Law and
18 Washington University Global
Society 691 (2019) (reviewing Richard
Studies Law Review 589 (2019).
Moorhead, Steven Vaughan and
in different areas. Also, what values do bar associations pursue through lawyer regulation and other efforts to influence law? My recent work involves comparative studies of international lawyer organizations and of lawyer
Cristina Godinho, In-House Lawyers’ The Impact of International
Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal
Lawyer Organizations on Lawyer
Risk and the Tournament of
Regulation (with Leslie C. Levin
Influence (Hart Publishing, 2018)).
organizations in different countries. The role of courts in conflict resolution and policymaking constitutes another
and Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen)
central research area for me.
42 Fordham International
What is a ‘case’? The concept
Law Journal 407 (2018).
of a case in court involves multiple perspectives, from the litigants’ interest in filing a claim to the governments’ interest in designating certain conduct as ‘illegal.’”
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