Scott L. Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, law and social change, and local government law. He is the faculty director of UCLA's Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession. Fabio de sa e Silva is assistant professor of international studies and the Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also an affiliated fellow at Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. Louise G. Trubek is clinical professor of law emerita at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she founded the Center for Public Representation. Louise is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Law School. An active scholar, she does research on public policy, public administration and human rights, and the legal profession.

'Anyone interested in Socio-Legal studies at large should find in this book a certain degree of satisfaction, for it covers familiar topics such as legal services provisions, law and globalisation, or lawyers' ethics.' Pierre-Louis Sanchez, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

• What is global about pro bono and what is global pro bono about? Scott L. Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva & Louise G. Trubek; Part I. The Americas: 2.Rationalizing pro bono: corporate social responsibility and the reinvention of legal professionalism in elite American law firms John Bliss , Steven A. Boutcher; 3.Pro bono legal work in Canada Robert Granfield , Fiona Kay; 4. Two tales of one Brazilian city: individual pro bono cases in são paulo corporate law firms Fabio de Sa e Silva; 5. The mandarins of law: pro bono legal work in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia Daniel Bonilla Maldonado; Part II. Europe: 6. Le Pro Bono: The development of pro bono practice in Europe Edwin Rekosh, Lamin Khadar; 7. An explosion of legal philanthropy? The transformation of pro bono legal services in England and Wales Andrew Boon, Avis Whyte; 8. No attorneys without generosity: why do lawyers practice pro bono? A French perspective Louis Assier-Andrieu & Jeremy Perleman; 9.Narrowing the justice gap: clearinghouses for Spain Leire Larracoechea San Sebastián, Michelle Ha, S. Todd Crider;10. Pro bono in Portugal Susana Santos; 11. Lawyers' pro bono work in Denmark Annette Olesen, Ole Hammerslev; Part III. Australia: 12. The tripartite effect of pro bono: contemplating the Australian experience Fiona McLeay, Lucy Adams; Part 1V. Africa: 13. Pro bono in South Africa Thabang Pooe, Alice Brown, Jonathan Klaaren; 14. The evolution of pro bono legal services in Nigeria Jayanth K. Krishnan, Kunle Ajagbe; Part V. Asia: 15. The evolving contours of private pro bono practice in India: local and global contexts Arpita Gupta; 16. Pro bono in Singapore Helena Whalen-Bridge, Robert Granfield; 17. The rise of private public interest lawyers in China Jin Dong, Qian Cheng