In collaboration with Cécile Guillaume, Jean-Michel Denis contributed to the writing of this article in La Nouvelle revue du Travail, No. 20, 2020.
Driven by the demands of their members, legalization, and the judicialization of social relations, unions have embarked on a process of internalizing the law, particularly in the form of internal legal services. The legal professionals who work there operate in organizations dominated by forms of political and partisan rationality that can conflict with the professional logic they represent. This article examines the conditions under which they practice their profession, caught between expert knowledge and militant logic, and questions the hybrid professionalization process they have managed to build.
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