Legal culture in the United States : an introduction / Kirk W. Junker.
2016
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Title
Legal culture in the United States : an introduction / Kirk W. Junker.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Call Number
KF380 .J86 2016
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781138642454 (hbk.)
1138642452 (hbk.)
9781138194304 (pbk.)
1138194301 (pbk.)
9781315629940 (ebk)
1315629941
1138642452 (hbk.)
9781138194304 (pbk.)
1138194301 (pbk.)
9781315629940 (ebk)
1315629941
Description
xxv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)922836376
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface: Seeing Law through the Reference Frames of Culture
xiii
Exigency
xiii
Using the Word "Culture" and a Sense of Orientation
xv
"Law as Culture" Category
xviii
Using the Words "United States"
xx
Reference Frames
xxi
Framing Issues and Checking, Furthering and Challenging Your Understanding
xxiv
1.
Goal: Knowing the Soul and Spirit of U.S. Legal Culture through the Experience of the Common Law
1
1.1.
Framing Issues
1
1.1.1.
Spirit
5
1.1.2.
Soul
6
1.1.3.
Spirit and the Soul of Advocacy
6
1.2.
Conclusions from Experience
8
2.
Always and Already Comparative Nature of "Foreign" Law
11
2.1.
Introduction
11
2.2.
Cognitive Status Quo
14
2.2.1.
Why Compare? A Brief History of Comparative Law
15
2.2.2.
Comparative Method
21
2.2.3.
Functionality
22
2.2.4.
How to Compare
26
2.2.5.
What Comparative Law Is Not
27
2.2.6.
Further Critiques That Generate New Schools of Comparativism
28
2.3.
Conclusions---What Is Learned or Gained from Comparative Science?
34
3.
Comparative Law Applied: The Subtle Differences Between Civil Law and Common Law in Study and Practice
41
3.1.
Why Compare Common Law with Civil Law?
41
3.1.1.
What Should One Compare? The Range from Hand to Math
42
3.1.2.
Comparing Institutions
46
3.1.3.
Comparing Processes
50
3.1.4.
Comparing Sources from the Bottom up
55
3.2.
Note on Case Decisions
61
3.3.
Comparisons within the Family: English Law and U.S. Law
62
4.
Historical Reference Frame of "Kingless Commonwealths on the Other Shore of the Atlantic"
68
4.1.
Problems of History
69
4.2.
Framing the Questions of History, U.S. History and U.S. Legal History
71
4.2.1.
Static View
73
4.2.2.
Circular or Cyclical View
73
4.2.3.
Progressive or Enlightenment View
74
4.2.4.
Spiral View
75
4.2.5.
Cataclysmic View
75
4.2.6.
Regressive View
76
4.3.
Proceeding from the Assumptions in the Various Views
16
4.4.
Use and Abuse of History
77
4.5.
Punished by Places and by Times: Establishing an Historical Narrative for U.S. Law
78
4.5.1.
Birth of the Common Law
80
4.5.2.
Early Period: Eleventh--Thirteenth Centuries
82
4.5.3.
Middle Period: 1340s--1640s
85
4.5.4.
Modern Period: The Eighteenth Century Until Today
87
4.6.
U.S. History
89
4.7.
U.S. Legal History
90
4.8.
Conclusion
93
5.
Social Reference Frame: Cultural Practices We Call "Law"
95
5.1.
Introduction: Does Society Want Legal Specialists?
95
5.1.1.
Social Approach to the Legal Actors
101
5.1.2.
Legal Practice and Training in the United States
102
5.1.3.
U.S. Legal Education and Practice Immediately After Independence
102
5.1.4.
General Considerations for Admission to the Practice of Law
105
5.1.5.
Legal Education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
108
5.2.
United States Today: Entry into the Profession of Practicing Law
112
5.3.
Foreign Lawyer Practice in the United States (L.L.M. and Foreign Legal Advisor)
113
5.4.
Legal Science
118
5.5.
Lawyers and Law Students by the Numbers
119
5.5.1.
Gender
120
5.5.2.
Race
121
5.6.
New Millennium for Common Law Education, A New Century for U.S. Legal Education
122
5.7.
Conclusion: Are the Horses in the Street Frightened Yet?
126
6.
Language Reference Frame
128
6.1.
Introduction and Outline
128
6.2.
Law and Literature
132
6.3.
Linguistics: Making Meaning through Language
136
6.4.
Rhetoric
144
6.5.
Philosophy of Language
156
6.6.
Conclusions
159
7.
Philosophy Reference Frame
162
7.1.
Philosophy, Legal Philosophy and American Legal Philosophy
162
7.2.
Making Meaning through Definition
164
7.2.1.
Making Meaning through Etymology
164
7.2.2.
Philosophical Method
165
7.2.3.
"Schools" of Philosophy in the Study and Practice of Law
165
7.3.
What Are the Attributes of "American" Philosophy?
167
7.3.1.
Realism, Pragmatism and Positivism
167
7.3.2.
Critical Legal Studies
171
7.3.3.
Rationalism v. Empiricism in U.S. Adversarial Trial Practice
173
7.4.
Conclusions: Philosophy for the Future
174
8.
Disciplinary Reference Frame
177
8.1.
Introduction
177
8.2.
Method of the Legal Discipline: More Than Textual Exegesis?
180
8.3.
Substance of the Legal Discipline: Attitude?
184
8.4.
Putting Notions of Text and Science Together
187
8.5.
Putting Notions of Practice and Art Together
190
8.6.
Conclusion
195
9.
Mechanistic Reference Frame
198
9.1.
Mechanics
198
9.2.
Discovery
200
9.3.
Lay Juries
203
9.4.
Trial
207
9.5.
Doctrine of Stare Decisis
210
9.6.
Federalism
215
9.6.1.
Federalism in the Making of Law
215
9.6.2.
Federalism and the Practice of Law
217
9.6.3.
What Law Applies to a Conflict---Federal or State?
219
9.6.4.
Federalism and State Relations to Other States
220
9.7.
Conclusions
221
Index
223