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Learning Law and Travelling Europe
In Learning Law and Travelling Europe, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen offers an account of the study journeys of Swedish lawyers in the early modern period, and their connection to the state-building process and the development of the Swedish legal profession.
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Lowering the Bar
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes.
Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
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School judgment
\"At Tenbin Elementary, there is only one way to settle a dispute--in a court of law! All quarrels bypass the teachers and are settled by some of the best lawyers in the country...who also happen to be elementary school students. The accused this time is a boy named Tento. His crime? The murder of a beloved member of the classroom! Luckily for him, the state has sent him a defense attorney--Abaku Inugami. But is this wild young lawyer skilled enough to argue his client off the hook?\"--Back cover.
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Racing for innocence : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action
How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question by examining the backlash against affirmative action in the late 1980s and early 1990s—just as courts, universities, and other institutions began to end affirmative action programs.
This book recounts the stories of elite legal professionals at a large corporation with a federally mandated affirmative action program, as well as the cultural narratives about race, gender, and power in the news media and Hollywood films. Though most white men denied accountability for any racism in the workplace, they recounted ways in which they resisted—whether wittingly or not— incorporating people of color or white women into their workplace lives. Drawing on three different approaches—ethnography, narrative analysis, and fiction—to conceptualize the complexities and ambiguities of race and gender in contemporary America, this book makes an innovative pedagogical tool.
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Seward's Law
In Seward's Law
, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's
legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of
relational rights-a theory that demonstrated how the country could
end slavery and establish a practical form of justice.
This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had ties to Seward's career as a
country lawyer. Despite his rise to prominence, and indeed
preeminence, as a US secretary of state, Seward's country-lawyer
mentality endured throughout his life, as evinced in his personal
attitudes and professional conduct. Relational rights, identified
and termed here for the first time by Hoffer, are communal and
reciprocal, what everyone owed to every other member of their
community. Such rights are at the center of a jurisprudential
outlook that arises directly from living in a village. Though
Seward was limited by the Victorian mores and the racialist
presumptions of his day, the concept of relational rights that
animated him was the natural antithesis to the theories and
practices of slavery. In the legal regime underpinning the
institution, masters owed nothing to their bondmen and women, while
those enslaved unconditionally owed life and labor to their
masters. The irrepressible conflict was, for Seward,
jurisprudential as well as moral and political. Hoffer's leading
assumption in Seward's Law is that a lifetime spent as a
lawyer influences how a person responds to everyday challenges.
Seward remained a country lawyer at heart, and that fact defined
the course of his political career.
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Beyond the Work Product
Beyond the Work Product will prepare business attorneys (and particularly law students and new attorneys) for a successful law practice by providing a framework for effective and efficient lawyering. It emphasizes building relationships and trust with clients so that, despite the existence of less costly alternatives, they will keep coming back for more.The approach is process-focused rather than outcome-focused; it emphasizes every step of the lawyering process, not simply delivering the best work product possible. Whether you are at a big firm, a small firm, or a solo practice, approaching lawyering as a relationship-driven job will help you build a sustainable practice and even increase your enjoyment of your work.
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