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Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I The need for a multicultural profession
Chapter one What is culture and why does it matter to lawyers? Law, justice, and society, "Chapter 1 law: its function and purpose" / Walsh and Hemmens
Interviewing and counseling across cultures: heuristics and biases / Paul R. Tremblay
Artistic interpretation
Chapter two Is there cultural bias in the legal profession or is it colorblind?
The ten precepts of American slavery jurisprudence: Chief Justice Roger Taney's defense and Justice Thurgood Marshall's condemnation of the precept of Black inferiority / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Addressing cultural bias in the legal profession / Debra Chopp
Colorblind profession
There is no Santa Claus: the challenge of teaching the next generation of civil rights lawyers in a 'post-racial' society / Deborah N. Archer
The reasonable man
Does the reasonable man have obsessive compulsive disorder? / Lucy Jewel
Reasonable Indian standard
Constructing the trident of the reasonable person: enough is enough! It's time for the reasonable Indian standard. / Genevieve Frances Steel
Part II Navigating your own identity
Chapter three Attorney identity: how does one's own culture affect being a lawyer?
Am I my client? The role of confusion as a lawyer activist. / Nancy D. Polikoff
Intra-race representation
Am I my client? revisited: the role of race in intra-race legal representation / Julie D. Lawton
How attorney culture can affect both substance and process in alternative dispute resolution
Developing skills to address cultural issues in arbitration and mediation / Theodore K. Cheng
chapter four Addressing one's own implicit (and explicit) bias
Implicit or explicit bias
Implicit bias issues for civil litigators
Attorneys/judges and implicit bias
Navigating the pitfalls of implicit bias: a cognitive science primer for civil litigators / Nicole E. Negowetti
Lawyers and implicit bias
Implicit bias and its application in the life of a lawyer / Yasir Billoo
Jurors and implicit bias
A case of bias. Jurors asked to maintain impartiality, but is that humanly possible? / © Melody Finnemore
Law students and implicit bias
Brain-wise lawyering for the clinical law student / Danielle R. Cover
What can we do about our implicit bias?
Part III How ordinary people interact with the law: how ordinary people view the law (and why it matters)
Jefferson County court study
Conceptualizations of legalese in the course of due process, from arrest to plea bargain: the perspectives of disadvantaged offenders / Shiv Narayan Persaud
Pro se tenants in housing court
Silence in the court: participation and subordination of poor tenants' voices in legal process / Barbara Bezdek
Part IV Navigating your client's identity
Chapter six Understanding the culture of your clients
Law and language: an empirically-based model for the opening moments of client interviews / Gay Gellhorn
Using a difference analysis to teach problem-saving / Kimberly E. O'Leary
Some final thoughts
Chapter seven Counseling clients across national cultures
Law, justice, and society, "Chapter 14 comparative law: law in other cultures" / Walsh and Hemmens
Perspectives from practitioners
New Zealand: a bicultural system
Bicultural lawyering in the Aotearoa/New Zealand context / Brendan Cullen, Cheryl Green, and Kylee Katipo
China
The 'ABCDEFG' of Meng Qi: perspectives of a Chinese national educated in the U.S. / Meng Qi, J.D.
A Malaysian barrister of Chinese descent breaks barriers in Australia
The five 'Rs' of multicultural lawyering / William Lye
Chapter eight Client-centered counseling and culture
Legacy
Yes, Santa Clause, there is a Virginia: how one lawyer realized a life of passion for justice, commitment to community, and empathy for clients / Kimberly E. O'Leary
Models of client counseling model
When context matters: how to choose an appropriate client counseling model / Kimberly E. O'Leary
When religious difference is the issue in the case
Cross-cultural lawyering and religion: a clinical perspective / James A. Sonne
Final thoughts
Part V Case studies
Chapter nine The culture of practice: cultural issues arising from specific legal practice fields
Bankruptcy
Corporate compliance
Criminal defense
Criminal prosecution
Elder law
Family law
Personal injury
Social justice reform: critical lawyering
Chapter ten Case studies: when failure to appreciate culture really mattered
Slavery, segregation and racism: trusting the health care system ain't always easy! An African American perspective on bioethics / Vernellia R. Randall
When legal stories are not told or are not heard: examples of cultural "fails" in Australia
Telling and retelling your story in court: questions, assumptions and intercultural implications / Dr. Diana Eades
Rule of law programs in Iraq-when failure to understand culture might result in failed policies and wasted millions
Legal anthropology on the battlefield: cultural competence in U. S. rule of law programs in Iraq / Judge David Shakes
Questions
Conclusion
Index.
Acknowledgements
Part I The need for a multicultural profession
Chapter one What is culture and why does it matter to lawyers? Law, justice, and society, "Chapter 1 law: its function and purpose" / Walsh and Hemmens
Interviewing and counseling across cultures: heuristics and biases / Paul R. Tremblay
Artistic interpretation
Chapter two Is there cultural bias in the legal profession or is it colorblind?
The ten precepts of American slavery jurisprudence: Chief Justice Roger Taney's defense and Justice Thurgood Marshall's condemnation of the precept of Black inferiority / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Addressing cultural bias in the legal profession / Debra Chopp
Colorblind profession
There is no Santa Claus: the challenge of teaching the next generation of civil rights lawyers in a 'post-racial' society / Deborah N. Archer
The reasonable man
Does the reasonable man have obsessive compulsive disorder? / Lucy Jewel
Reasonable Indian standard
Constructing the trident of the reasonable person: enough is enough! It's time for the reasonable Indian standard. / Genevieve Frances Steel
Part II Navigating your own identity
Chapter three Attorney identity: how does one's own culture affect being a lawyer?
Am I my client? The role of confusion as a lawyer activist. / Nancy D. Polikoff
Intra-race representation
Am I my client? revisited: the role of race in intra-race legal representation / Julie D. Lawton
How attorney culture can affect both substance and process in alternative dispute resolution
Developing skills to address cultural issues in arbitration and mediation / Theodore K. Cheng
chapter four Addressing one's own implicit (and explicit) bias
Implicit or explicit bias
Implicit bias issues for civil litigators
Attorneys/judges and implicit bias
Navigating the pitfalls of implicit bias: a cognitive science primer for civil litigators / Nicole E. Negowetti
Lawyers and implicit bias
Implicit bias and its application in the life of a lawyer / Yasir Billoo
Jurors and implicit bias
A case of bias. Jurors asked to maintain impartiality, but is that humanly possible? / © Melody Finnemore
Law students and implicit bias
Brain-wise lawyering for the clinical law student / Danielle R. Cover
What can we do about our implicit bias?
Part III How ordinary people interact with the law: how ordinary people view the law (and why it matters)
Jefferson County court study
Conceptualizations of legalese in the course of due process, from arrest to plea bargain: the perspectives of disadvantaged offenders / Shiv Narayan Persaud
Pro se tenants in housing court
Silence in the court: participation and subordination of poor tenants' voices in legal process / Barbara Bezdek
Part IV Navigating your client's identity
Chapter six Understanding the culture of your clients
Law and language: an empirically-based model for the opening moments of client interviews / Gay Gellhorn
Using a difference analysis to teach problem-saving / Kimberly E. O'Leary
Some final thoughts
Chapter seven Counseling clients across national cultures
Law, justice, and society, "Chapter 14 comparative law: law in other cultures" / Walsh and Hemmens
Perspectives from practitioners
New Zealand: a bicultural system
Bicultural lawyering in the Aotearoa/New Zealand context / Brendan Cullen, Cheryl Green, and Kylee Katipo
China
The 'ABCDEFG' of Meng Qi: perspectives of a Chinese national educated in the U.S. / Meng Qi, J.D.
A Malaysian barrister of Chinese descent breaks barriers in Australia
The five 'Rs' of multicultural lawyering / William Lye
Chapter eight Client-centered counseling and culture
Legacy
Yes, Santa Clause, there is a Virginia: how one lawyer realized a life of passion for justice, commitment to community, and empathy for clients / Kimberly E. O'Leary
Models of client counseling model
When context matters: how to choose an appropriate client counseling model / Kimberly E. O'Leary
When religious difference is the issue in the case
Cross-cultural lawyering and religion: a clinical perspective / James A. Sonne
Final thoughts
Part V Case studies
Chapter nine The culture of practice: cultural issues arising from specific legal practice fields
Bankruptcy
Corporate compliance
Criminal defense
Criminal prosecution
Elder law
Family law
Personal injury
Social justice reform: critical lawyering
Chapter ten Case studies: when failure to appreciate culture really mattered
Slavery, segregation and racism: trusting the health care system ain't always easy! An African American perspective on bioethics / Vernellia R. Randall
When legal stories are not told or are not heard: examples of cultural "fails" in Australia
Telling and retelling your story in court: questions, assumptions and intercultural implications / Dr. Diana Eades
Rule of law programs in Iraq-when failure to understand culture might result in failed policies and wasted millions
Legal anthropology on the battlefield: cultural competence in U. S. rule of law programs in Iraq / Judge David Shakes
Questions
Conclusion
Index.