Legal culture and the legal profession / edited by Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber.
1996
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Title
Legal culture and the legal profession / edited by Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber.
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
Call Number
KF384.A2 L44 1996
ISBN
0813389356
Description
183 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35021801
Note
"Papers ... originally presented in May, 1993, at a conference held at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, under the principal sponsorship of the Western Center of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" -- page [1].
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1
Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession: Introduction / Lawrence M. Friedman Harry N. Scheiber
1
2
American Lawyers, Legal Cultures, and Adversarial Legalism / Robert A. Kagan
7
3
Are We a Litigious People? / Lawrence M. Friedman
53
4
The Assault on Civil Justice: The Anti-Lawyer Dimension / Marc Galanter
79
5
The "Globalization" of Judicial Review / Martin Shapiro
119
6
Americanization of Law: Reception or Convergence? / Wolfgang Wiegand
137
7
Courts and the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identity: Public Law Litigation in the Denver Schools / Rachel F. Moran
153
About the Contributors
181
About the Book
184