In this collection of essays, Andrew Boon has brought together a team of experts on the legal profession from nine jurisdictions (the United States ("US"), Canada, Singapore, Eire, New Zealand, Israel, Australia, Germany, and England and Wales). Boon begins the introductory chapter by signposting the different regulatory models and spheres affecting legal professions. This is followed by substantive chapters on the regulation of the legal profession in each jurisdiction. Boon aptly concludes the volume with the final chapter on the common drivers and themes underlying the developments of the legal profession in those jurisdictions. This book will appeal to law academics, legal practitioners and policy-makers interested in the legal profession and comparative law.

Professor Tan's monograph The Law of Agency, first published in 2010, forms part of Academy Publishing's 'Law Practice Series' which aims to publish seminal works on key subject areas in legal practice. It is encouraging, to this end, to see the law of agency take its rightful position in this cast, rather than simply being relegated to a sub-set of contract law (where it not infrequently resides in law school syllabi). There is much more, after all, to the law of agency than its common (but not invariable) contractual foundation; agency inhabits, and interacts with, other core areas within the modern law of obligations, including those sourced from tort, property and equity.