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Practicing lawyers, Lower Mekong

The number of practicing lawyers in each Lower Mekong country, from various sources. Collated for a visualization on the OD Mekong Law and judiciary page (https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/law-and-judiciary).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Law and judiciary
  • Regulation of lawyers
Language
  • English
Dataset reference date May 19, 2016
Temporal extent's start date January 1, 2008
Temporal extent's end date December 31, 2014
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • Viet Nam
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Thailand
  • Myanmar
Positional Accuracy Various sources used, each corresponding to various years. Also, the original source document for the 2008 Thailand figure is no longer available online.
Logical Consistency Countries have different definitions for people who can practice law in their country, most especially Myanmar, which has three levels of advocates, pleaders, and law officers.
Process Step From Google searches on "number of lawyers" for each country, copy and paste numbers, notes and year references into an Excel spreadsheet.
Lineage Cambodia: B Dunlap. The Rule of Law Without Lawyers: American Legal Reformers and the Cambodian Lawyer Shortage (April 12, 2014). http://ssrn.com/abstract=2424255 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2424255. Laos: Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Laos profile. http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/library/ja/bar_association/word/data/Laos.pdf. Myanmar: UNDP. Bridges to Justice: Rule of Law Centres for Myanmar - A Feasibility Study, page 5. Accessed 28 May 2016. http://www.mm.undp.org/content/dam/myanmar/docs/Publications/DemoGov/UNDP_MM_DG_Bridges_to_Justice.pdf. Thailand: Lawyers for Lawyers. http://www.advocatenvooradvocaten.nl/countries/thailand/. Vietnam: Lawyers for Lawyers. http://www.advocatenvooradvocaten.nl/countries/vietnam/
Responsible party ODI researcher: David Hill
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Date uploaded May 31, 2016, 06:57 (UTC)
Date modified May 31, 2016, 07:07 (UTC)