4 Nepal Bar Association

1. History: founded in the mid-1950s (the profession's collective voice from the first generation); the growth with the bar's expansion; the professional activism's chapters — the bar's role in the democratic movements (the 1990-and-2006 movements' lawyers' front: the NBA's-and- bars' place in the street-and-courtroom struggles for constitutionalism — the profession's proudest political memory);2. The structure: the NBA's federal design (the central association + the Supreme Court BarAssociation, the High Court Bars, the District Court Bars — the tiered representation of the practicing bar); the elections-and-officeholders' culture; the functions: the welfare-and- advocacy (the members' interests), the policy-voice (the legislation's-and-judiciary-reform positions), the independence's defense (the bar's watchdog role — the bench-bar relations' public dimension), the international-and-regional affiliations (the IBA-and-SAARCLAW families).