Legal Culture and the Legal Profession

A common complaint of the anti-lawyer movement is that under the influence of lawyers we have become a litigious society, in the process undermining traditional American values such as self-reliance and responsibility. In this volume a group of distinguished scholars in law and the social sciences explores these questions.

List of contents

1 Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession: Introduction 2 American Lawyers, Legal Cultures, and Adversarial Legalism 3 Are We a Litigious People? 4 The Assault on Civil Justice: The Anti-Lawyer Dimension 5 The Globalization of Judicial Review 6 Americanization of Law: Reception or Convergence? 7 Courts and the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identity: Public Law Litigation in the Denver Schools

About the author

Lawrence M Friedman (Author) , Harry N. Scheiber (Author)

Summary

A common complaint of the anti-lawyer movement is that under the influence of lawyers we have become a litigious society, in the process undermining traditional American values such as self-reliance and responsibility. In this volume a group of distinguished scholars in law and the social sciences explores these questions.

Product details

• Authors: Friedman, Lawrence M Friedman, Lawrence M Scheiber Friedman, Lawrence M. Scheiber Friedman
• Assisted by: Lawrence M. Friedman (Editor), Harry N. Scheiber (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780367017569
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01756-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Civil Procedure, LAW / Litigation, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution