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A nation under lawyers : how the crisis in the legal profession is transforming American society

Title
A nation under lawyers : how the crisis in the legal profession is transforming American society / Mary Ann Glendon.
Author
Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.

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Description
331 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Glendon provides an assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture and the role of lawyers in our society.
Subject
  • Lawyers > United States
  • Practice of law > United States
  • Juristes
  • Pouvoir judiciaire
  • Changement culturel
  • Lawyers
  • Practice of law
  • Jurist
  • Rechtsanwalt
  • Berufssoziologie
  • Rechtssociologie
  • Advocatuur
  • Juristen
  • Etats-Unis d'Amérique
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-323) and index.
Contents
A nation under lawyers -- Part 1. Professionalism and its discontents -- When just being a good lawyer isn't enough -- Connoisseurs of conflict -- When ethical worlds collide -- Feeling bad when one should be feeling good; feeling good when one should be feeling bad -- Part 2. The ways and tastes of magistrates -- Cracks in the classical façade -- The new ball game -- The extra man on the field: Hey! Wasn't that the umpire? -- Part 3. The lamp of learning -- The ballad of Karl Llewellyn -- The new academy -- Look, Ma! No hands! -- The mighty princess and the woman by the wayside -- Part 4. Lawyers and the democratic experiment -- One vast school of law -- In the balance.
ISBN
  • 0374219389
  • 9780374219383
LCCN
94013417
OCLC
  • ocm30111750
  • 30111750
  • SCSB-9018535
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library