A curiosity: data from the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe show that Italy has the second highest incidence of lawyers per capita in Europe, second only to Luxembourg.
Students of Mancur Olson will know of the potentially deleterious effects of lawyers on growth.
I’m not surprised – if you look at c.v.s everyone and their wife seems to have laureato in giurisprudenza. (Toni Negri laureated in jurisprudence, for goodness sake.) It’s not quite like for like, but I suspect that the number of British MPs and political activists with an LLM (and a specialism in legal theory) is a tad lower.
Link | February 26th, 2013 at 8:35 pm
Yes, I’d have the same suspicion. I’m curious as to what’s driving it, esp. the laurea in giurisprudenza. That degree covers a wide range of things and exit routes. Maybe we only reach the Italian total if we bundle it together with accountants (cf. avvocato tributarista). But then, we haven’t even got on to the notaii!
Link | February 26th, 2013 at 9:04 pm