Philip Lewis

Associate Research Fellow

Philip Lewis works on the legal profession, both within the UK and internationally. His current work focuses on factors affecting lawyer-client relations.

Contact details
philip.lewis@csls.ox.ac.uk
07747 026367

Qualifications and positions

MA (Oxford); barrister.
Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1965-1988; Emeritus Fellow 1988-present.
Formally associated with the Centre since 1996, and also Visiting Scholar , Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-2008

Main publications

Lawyers in Society, 3 volumes, ed. Abel and  Lewis, University of California Press (1988-9)
Law and Technology in the Pacific Community, ed. Lewis, Westview Press (1994)

Current work

The research literature on legal professions identifies a number of elements in lawyer-client relations and factors affecting them. Lewis seeks to extend the discussion of their interconnection by re-examining the literature in the light of previous research projects. One of these, on UK government lawyers, is intended be published separately. Previous papers on some of these projects are as follows:

“Knowing the buzzwords and clapping for Tinker Bell; the context, content and qualities of lawyers' knowledge in a specialised industrial field” in K. Hawkins ed., The Human Face of Law: Essays in Honour of Donald Harris, Oxford University Press (1997)

“Tales of the Valley: Law, Lawyers and Culture in in Innovation Center”. Paper given at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco, January 2001

“Lawyers in a Governmental Organisation”. Paper given at the Annual Meeting of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Nottingham 2003

“Themes and comparisons in the study of legal professions”. Paper given at the Annual meeting of the Working Group on Legal Professions at Peyresq, France, July 2006