“Disaster as alternative: authorized profession paths at two historic turning factors in Hong Kong“
Sida Liu, Anson Au, and Pamela P. Tsui
Legislation & Society Evaluation, Quantity 58, Situation 3, pp. 481 – 504
Revealed on-line: October 2024
Summary: This text investigates the profession trajectories of Hong Kong solicitors throughout two historic turning factors, particularly 1994–1997 and 2018–2021, when tons of of legal professionals left personal observe to pursue different profession choices resembling enterprise and finance, authorities and politics, or relocation to different nations. Information are sourced from the profession mobility information of legislation agency companions reported in 336 month-to-month problems with the Hong Kong Lawyer journal between 1994 and 2021, in addition to different related archival sources. The analysis examines the underlying forces that led these legislation agency companions to desert their high-status positions and pursue different profession paths throughout these pivotal moments in Hong Kong’s historical past. The findings counsel that the profession trajectories of those elite professionals usually are not solely primarily based on particular person selections however are additionally formed by their social origins and the bodily and social areas that affect their careers over time. This examine contributes authentic insights into the advanced interaction between particular person, spatial and temporal elements that drive profession mobility amongst authorized professionals.
