Lynn Mather

SUNY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR EMERITA

PhD, University of California, Irvine BA, University of California, Los Angeles

AREAS OF INTEREST

LEGAL PROFESSION LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY COURTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION LAW AND SOCIETY

ARTICLES Communities of Scholars and Communities of Practice, 48 Journal of Law and Society 25 (2021).

What is a ‘Case’?, 11(2) Onati Socio-Legal Series 355 (2021).

Beyond the Guild: Lawyer Organizations and Law Making (with Leslie C. Levin) 18 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 589 (2019).

The Impact of International Lawyer Organizations on Lawyer Regulation (with Leslie C. Levin and Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen) 42 Fordham International Law Journal 407 (2018).

lmather@buffalo.edu

CHAPTERS When and Why Do Lawyer Organisations Seek to Influence Law? (with Leslie C. Levin) in Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, vol. 2 (Richard Abel et al., eds., Hart, forthcoming 2022).

Client Selection: How Lawyers Reflect and Influence Community Values, in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries & Law: Revisiting “The Oven Bird’s Song” 82 (Mary Nell Trautner, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018).

BOOK REVIEWS Book Review, 46 Journal of Law and Society 691 (2019) (reviewing Richard Moorhead, Steven Vaughan and Cristina Godinho, In-House Lawyers’ Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence (Hart Publishing, 2018)). What influences lawyers in their decisions at work and how do those factors vary in different fields of legal practice? My research has explored these questions empirically in studies of lawyers working 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 organizations in different countries. The role of courts in conflict resolution and policymaking constitutes another central research area for me. What is a ‘case’? The concept 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.’”