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The University of Chicago Press Law Without Values The Life Work and Legacy of
Book SynopsisThis work paints a dark picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favoured eugenics, and as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might means right".Trade Review"An exuberantly and entertainingly polemical attack on the character, scholarship and philosophy of America's most revered judicial saint." - Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Book Review "[This] slender volume by a distinguished University of Chicago law professor should be required reading." - Tom Roeser, Chicago Sun-Times; "In a lively and entertaining attack, Albert Alschuler strips layer after layer from the traditional image of Holmes to reveal not a wise and compassionate liberal saint, but a heartless social Darwinist who believed in nothing but power. [H]is dissection of Holmes's legal scholarship is devastating." - The Economist
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The University of Chicago Press Tournament of Lawyers The Transformation of the
Book SynopsisTournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentivethe race to win the promotion-to-partner tournament. This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms.Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal
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The University of Chicago Press Urban Lawyers The New Social Structure of the Bar
Book SynopsisAnd with this landmark study as their guide, readers will be able to make their own informed predictions.Trade Review"The best snapshot of Chicago lawyers.... Urban Lawyers is theoretically trenchant, methodologically highly sophisticated, and scrupulously careful. Essential reading for anyone interested in seeking to understand the future of the legal profession from a close reading of its immediate past." - Richard L. Abel, editor of Lawyers: A Critical Reader"
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of Lawyers Careers
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented account of social stratification within the US legal profession. How do race, class, gender, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate these parameters? The Making of Lawyers' Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US, offering a data-backed look at the structure of the profession and the inequalities that early-career lawyers face across race, gender, and class distinctions. Starting in 2000, the authors collected over 10,000 survey responses from more than 5,000 lawyers, following these lawyers through the first twenty years of their careers. They also interviewed more than two hundred lawyers and drew insights from their individual stories, contextualizing data with theory and close attention to the features of a market-driven legal profession. Their findings show that lawyers' careers both reflect and reproduce inequalities within society wTrade Review"[The Making of Lawyers' Careers] disputes law firms' explanation for why women and minorities disproportionately leave law firms before partnership consideration. . . . [their] data provides important insight into why current efforts to improve diversity in the legal profession are plateauing." * Trial Magazine *"The Making of Lawyers’ Careers is essential reading for lawyers, law students, and anyone interested in the practice of law, lawyers’ careers, and the impact of law and lawyers on American culture and politics. Every chapter is a gem . . . In recent years, some law schools have supplemented the required legal ethics or law governing lawyers class with various offerings about the legal profession, law practice, and lawyers’ careers. The Making of Lawyers’ Careers should be a required reading in these types of classes. Indeed, it ought to become a cornerstone of every lawyer’s library." * Jotwell *"This in-depth examination of diverse attorneys’ career journeys presents a remarkably nuanced analysis of data, individual narratives, and the patterns that emerge between them. The result is a textured map that allows leaders to holistically identify—and address—the mile markers and roadblocks that propel or impede a diverse lawyer’s career." -- Robert Grey | president, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity“This massive study of lawyers’ careers—the most ambitious and comprehensive ever undertaken—is marvelously revealing, not only of the structure of the profession but of the felt experience of being a lawyer in 21st century America.” -- Robert W. Gordon | Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsNote on Authorship Part 1 Introduction 1 Introduction: The Making of Lawyers’ Careers 2 From the Golden Age to the Age of Disruption: Setting the Context for Lawyers’ Careers in the New Millennium Part 2 The Structure of Lawyers’ Careers 3 Change and Continuity in the Legal Field: From Walled-Off Hemispheres to More or Less Mixed Hierarchical Sequences 4 Race, Class, and Gender in the Structuring of Lawyers’ Early Careers 5 Two Hemispheres Revisited: Fields of Law, Practice Settings, and Client Types Part 3 The Narratives of Lawyers’ Careers 6 Moving Up and Moving On: Careers in Law Firms 7 Rethinking the Solo Practitioner 8 Moving Inside: Practicing Law in Business Organizations 9 Commitment, Careerism, and Stratification: Careers in Government, Nonprofits, and Public Interest Organizations Part 4 Inequalities of Race and Gender 10 White Spaces: The Enduring Racialization of American Law Firms, with Vitor M. Dias 11 Student Debt and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage in Lawyers’ Careers 12 Hegemonic Masculinity, Parenthood, and Gender Inequality, with Andreea Mogosanu Part 5 Public Roles and Private Lives 13 Dualities of Politics, Public Service, and Pro Bono in Lawyers’ Careers, with Ioana Sendroiu 14 Lawyers’ Satisfaction and the Making of Lawyers’ Careers, with Ioana Sendroiu Part 6 Conclusion 15 Conclusion: Structure and Agency in the Making of Lawyers’ Careers Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£84.00
Indiana University Press Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren RobelAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Beginning 1842 – 18772. A Rebirth 1889 -19333. Building a Reputation 1933 - 19764. Becoming a Global Law School 1976 - 20175. Jerome Hall Law Library6. International Students and the Rise of Graduate Legal Studies Programs7. Notable Graduates of the Maurer School of LawAppendix 1 TimelineAppendix 2 Law School Leaders 1842 – 2018Appendix 3 Academy of Law Alumni Fellows Recipients 1985 - 2018Appendix 4 Distinguished Service Award Recipients 1997 - 2017SourcesIndex
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Stanford Law Chronicles Doin Time On The Farm
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University of Texas Press Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark A Life of
Book SynopsisThis biography of the former Attorney General of the United States (1945–1949) and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1949–1967) provides important insights into the workings of the Supreme Court and the justices who served on it during arguablyTable of Contents Foreword by Ramsey Clark Preface Acknowledgments Prologue Part One. The Early Years, 1899-1936 Chapter 1. Early Influences Chapter 2. Emerging into Manhood Chapter 3. Forging the Steel Chapter 4. Turning Points Part Two. The Department of Justice Years, 1937-1949 Chapter 5. Some Disruptive Years Chapter 6. His Greatest Mistake Chapter 7. Beyond the Goal Chapter 8. The President's Lawyer Chapter 9. Juvenile Delinquency and the Freedom Train Chapter 10. Civil Rights: Opening a New Era Chapter 11. Cold War Fever: National Security versus Individual Freedom Chapter 12. The 1948 Presidential Election Part Three. The Supreme Court Years, 1949-1967 Chapter 13. A Controversial Appointment Chapter 14. A Period of Adjustment Chapter 15. Investigation Mania Chapter 16. A Delicate Balance Chapter 17. The Brown Decision and Civil Rights Chapter 18. Some Troublesome Issues Chapter 19. He Made a Difference Chapter 20. An Ending and a Beginning Part Four. Retirement, 1967-1977 Chapter 21. The Great Adventure Chapter 22. The Federal Judicial Center Chapter 23. Riding the Circuits, Championing Reforms Chapter 24. Some Personal Observations Chapter 25. A Life Well Lived Epilogue Appendix: Law Clerks of Justice Clark Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Book SynopsisThe study revolves around the central question of why the Palestinian legal profession declined during twenty years of Israeli occupation when, in other Third World countries, the legal profession has often reached its peak during a period of Western colonizationTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Imposition of the Modern Legal Profession 3. The Social and Cultural Context 4. Orientalist Despotism 5. The Social Composition of and Entry into the Profession 6. The Organization of the Legal Profession 7. The Content of Legal Practice 8. Deterioration of the Formal Court System 9. Disintegration of the Profession 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press No Concessions
Book SynopsisHuman rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien's (1913-1989) ethnic Chinese roots spurred him to become a courageous defender of the rights of all oppressed Indonesians. This title presents Yap's story that brings modern Indonesian history to life.Trade Review". . . masterly biography . . ." -- Gerry Van Klinken * Bijdragen tot de Taal- *"This book provides important insights into the history of political repression, racism and discrimination in Indonesia through the life of one man. It also makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Indonesian legal history. This book will inform and inspire a new generation . . ." -- Melissa Crouch * Australian Journal of Asian Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction | Primary Players / Benedict Anderson 1. Aceh 2. Java 3. Batavia 4. From Sukabumi to Leiden 5. Jakarta 6. Hazardous Waters 7. At Sea in Peranakan Politics 8. The Baperki Wars 9. Out of the Ethnic Cage 10. Into New Order Indonesia 11. Early New Order Battlefields 12. Reform Frontiers 13. Law as Politics: A Sidetrip to Detention Epilogue | A Steady Course / Arlene O. Lev Postscript | New Order Landmark Case / Sebastiaan Pompe and Ibrahim Assegaf Appendix | Defense Summation in Asep Suryaman Trial / Yap Thiam Hien Glossary Notes Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Justice and Faith
Book SynopsisFrank Murphy was a Michigan man unafraid to speak truth to power. He is best remembered for his immense legal contributions supporting individual liberty and fighting discrimination. Justice and Faith explores Murphy's life and times by incorporating troves of archive materials not available to previous biographers.
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The University of Michigan Press Lives of Lawyers Revisited
Book SynopsisThe legal profession has been powerfully transformed. This title offers in-sights into the nature of this change through the stories of five varied law practices. It gives an exploration of how different firms and departments cope with a changing profession is followed by a provocative examination of how best to understand change in the law.
£23.70
University of California Press Gender Trials
Book SynopsisAn ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Law and Film
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together contemporary work from Britain, Germany and the United States on how law and lawyers in the Anglo-American legal system have been represented in film, particularly in the past 40 years. It seeks to provide an overview of existing work on law and film.Table of Contents1. Law in Film: Globalizing the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 2. American Criminal Trial Films: An Overview of their Development 1930 - 2000: Nicole Rafter (Northeastern University). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 3. Law in the Movies: Contrasting the American and European Tradition: Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 4. Adapting the Modern Law Novel: Filming: John Grisham Peter Robson (The Law School, University of Strathclyde). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 5. Myths in the Oeuvre of John Ford: Michael B?hnke (Ruhr-Universitat) 6. Cape Fear - Two Versions and Two Visions Separated by Thirty Years: Gerald J. Thain (University of Wisconsin). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 7. The German Courtroom Film During the Nazi Period: Peter Drexler (Universitat Potsdam). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 8. Borders and Boundaries: Location the Law in Film: Guy Osborn (University of Westminster). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 9. Hero or Villain? Cinematic lawyers and the delivery of justice: Steve Greenfield (University of Westminster). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 10. Why A Jury Trial is More Like a Movie Than a Novel: Philip Meyer (Vermont Law School). the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat). 11. Patterns of Courtroom Justice: Jessica Silbey. the Hollywood Courtroom Drama: Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich (Ruhr-Universitat).
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Harvard University Press Henry Friendly Greatest Judge of His Era
Book SynopsisHenry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life.Trade Review[A] meticulous biography. * Kirkus Reviews *Dorsen...has written a first-rate biography of a judge whose opinions had great influence on the law and legal scholarship. -- Michael Eshleman * Library Journal *[Dorsen] constructs an intricate account of how Friendly diligently shaped the landscape of American law. -- Adam White * Wall Street Journal *Dorsen's biographical sketch offers some fascinating pieces of American legal history, and Posner's introduction is a valuable evaluation of Friendly by a fellow judge...Friendly merits study not as a model for other judges but as a rare example of legal genius. -- David Marcus * The Deal *
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Harvard University Press Overcoming Law
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University of British Columbia Press Justice Bertha Wilson One Womans Difference Law
Book SynopsisThis timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson’s contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career.Trade ReviewThe book is an excellent legacy of Madame Justice Bertha Wilson’s life as a lawyer, jurist, role model, and task force chair. Hers was a life that made a difference. -- Joan Brockman * Canadian Journal of Woman and the Law, Vol 22 *Justice Bertha Wilson is an original contribution ... this collection of essays reminds us that all women constitute themselves within conditions of overt and more ambient gender discrimination. Through the lens of one “extraordinary” woman’s life, this collection contributes to feminist attempts to develop theories that account for women’s capacity for agency, their negotiations, concessions, and transgressions of normative femininity – in short, the relative and shifting constraints and opportunities generated through our interactions with gendered social structures. -- Suzanne Bouclin, Faculty of Law, McGill University * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010 *Table of ContentsPreface / Justice Claire L'Heureux-DubéIntroduction / Kim BrooksPart 1: Foundations1 Bertha Wilson’s Practice Years (1958–75): Establishing a Research Practice and Founding a Research Department in Canada / Angela Fernandez and Beatrice Tice2 A Traditionalist’s Property Jurisprudence/ Larissa Katz3 Power, Discretion, and Vulnerability, Justice Wilson and Fiduciary Duty in the Corporate/Commercial Context / Janis Sarra4 A Few More Spokes to the Wheel: Reasonableness, Fairness, and Justice in Justice Bertha Wilson’s Approach to Contract Law / Moira L. McConnell5 Giving Emotions Their Due: Justice Bertha Wilson’s Response to Intangible Loss in Contract / Shannon Kathleen O’ByrnePart 2: Controversy6 Picking up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey7 Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference / Janine Benedet8 Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson / Isabel Grant and Debra Parkes9 “Finally I know Where I am Going to Be From”: Culture, Context, and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods / Gillian Calder10 Challenging Patriarchy or Embracing Liberal Norms? Justice Wilson’s Child Custody and Access Decisions / Susan B. BoydPart 3: Reflections11 But Was She a Feminist Judge? / Beverley Baines12 I Agree/Disagree for the Following Reasons: Convergence, Divergence, and Justice Wilson’s “Modest Degree of Creativity” / Marie-Claire Belleau, Rebecca Johnson, and Christina Vinters13 A Way of Being in the World / Lorna Turnbull14 Ideas and Transformation: A Reflection on Bertha Wilson’s Contribution to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession / Melina Buckley15 Taking a Stand on Equality: Bertha Wilson and the Evolution of Judicial Education in Canada / Rosemary Cairns Way and T. Brettel Dawson16 Bertha Wilson: “Silences” in a Woman’s Life Story / Mary Jane MossmanIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Justice Bertha Wilson One Womans Difference Law
Book SynopsisThis timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson’s contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career.Trade ReviewThe book is an excellent legacy of Madame Justice Bertha Wilson’s life as a lawyer, jurist, role model, and task force chair. Hers was a life that made a difference. -- Joan Brockman * Canadian Journal of Woman and the Law, Vol 22 *Justice Bertha Wilson is an original contribution ... this collection of essays reminds us that all women constitute themselves within conditions of overt and more ambient gender discrimination. Through the lens of one “extraordinary” woman’s life, this collection contributes to feminist attempts to develop theories that account for women’s capacity for agency, their negotiations, concessions, and transgressions of normative femininity – in short, the relative and shifting constraints and opportunities generated through our interactions with gendered social structures. -- Suzanne Bouclin, Faculty of Law, McGill University * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010 *Table of ContentsPreface / Justice Claire L'Heureux-DubéIntroduction / Kim BrooksPart 1: Foundations1 Bertha Wilson’s Practice Years (1958–75): Establishing a Research Practice and Founding a Research Department in Canada / Angela Fernandez and Beatrice Tice2 A Traditionalist’s Property Jurisprudence/ Larissa Katz3 Power, Discretion, and Vulnerability, Justice Wilson and Fiduciary Duty in the Corporate/Commercial Context / Janis Sarra4 A Few More Spokes to the Wheel: Reasonableness, Fairness, and Justice in Justice Bertha Wilson’s Approach to Contract Law / Moira L. McConnell5 Giving Emotions Their Due: Justice Bertha Wilson’s Response to Intangible Loss in Contract / Shannon Kathleen O’ByrnePart 2: Controversy6 Picking up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey7 Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference / Janine Benedet8 Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson / Isabel Grant and Debra Parkes9 “Finally I know Where I am Going to Be From”: Culture, Context, and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods / Gillian Calder10 Challenging Patriarchy or Embracing Liberal Norms? Justice Wilson’s Child Custody and Access Decisions / Susan B. BoydPart 3: Reflections11 But Was She a Feminist Judge? / Beverley Baines12 I Agree/Disagree for the Following Reasons: Convergence, Divergence, and Justice Wilson’s “Modest Degree of Creativity” / Marie-Claire Belleau, Rebecca Johnson, and Christina Vinters13 A Way of Being in the World / Lorna Turnbull14 Ideas and Transformation: A Reflection on Bertha Wilson’s Contribution to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession / Melina Buckley15 Taking a Stand on Equality: Bertha Wilson and the Evolution of Judicial Education in Canada / Rosemary Cairns Way and T. Brettel Dawson16 Bertha Wilson: “Silences” in a Woman’s Life Story / Mary Jane MossmanIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The New Lawyer Second Edition How Clients Are
Book SynopsisThe New Lawyer analyzes the profound impact changes in client needs and demands are having on how law is practised. Most legal clients are unwilling or unable to pay for protracted litigation and count on their lawyers to pursue just and expedient resolution. These clients are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the principles of legal practice. In this fully revised edition of the now classic text, Julie Macfarlane outlines how lawyers can meet new expectations by committing to lawyer-client collaboration, conflict resolution advocacy, and revised financial structures so that the legal profession can remain relevant in this rapidly changing environment.Table of ContentsForeword / Kari Boyle and Jennifer Muller1 Changes in the Legal Profession and the Emergence of the New Lawyer2 The Making of a Lawyer: How Professional Identity Develops3 What Lawyers Believe: Three Key Professional Beliefs4 Legal Negotiations5 The New Advocacy6 The Lawyer/Client Relationship7 The Shadow of the Law8 Ethical Challenges for the New Lawyer9 Where the Action Is: Sites of ChangeEpilogueNotes, Index
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University of British Columbia Press Claire LHeureuxDube
Book SynopsisBoth lionized and vilified, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as the great dissenter on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn.L'Heureux-Dubé's innovative legal approach was anchored in the social, economic, and political context of her cases. Constance Backhouse employs a similar tactic. Rather than focusing exclusively on her high-profile cases and jurisprudential legacy, sheexplores the socio-political and cultural setting in which L'Heureux-Dubé's career unfolded, while also considering her personal life. This compelling biography covers aspects of legal history that have never been so fully investigated, enhancing our understanding of the judiciary, the creation of law, the distinctive socio-legal environment of Quebec, the experiences of women in the legal profession, Trade Review[Claire L’HeureuxDubé: A Life] is an exceptional contribution to Canadian legal literature. Backhouse completely immersed herself in her subject by taking extensive French immersion studies, learning about the Quebec civil law system, and conducting close to 200 interviews over a ten-year period … the result is a meticulously researched but very readable biography of a leading figure in Quebec and Canadian law. -- David Cameletti, Barrister and Solicitor * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsForewordChronologyIntroduction1 EwanchukFamily Heritage and Childhood2 Lineage: Of Elephants, Literary Salons, the Military, and Mozart3 Early Years: Quebec City and Rimouski4 Growing Up in RimouskiEarly Education 5 Life as a Pensionnaire with the Ursulines, 1937–436 Collège Notre-Dame-de-Bellevue: Classical Studies for a Baccalauréat, 1943–46A Legal Education7 The Decision to Go to Law School, 1946–488 Laval Law School Student Body, 1948–529 Laval Law School Faculty and Curriculum, 1948–5210 Life Outside of Law School, 1949–52Law Practice11 Entry: A Law Firm Job, 195212 Sam Bard: The Man behind the Employment Offer13 Business Law Practice14 Marriage and Children15 Family Law: The Later Years of Practice16 Practising as a WomanQuebec Superior Court17 New Career Directions: “No” to Electoral Politics, “Yes” to the Bench, 1972–7318 First Months on the Bench, February to October 197319 Immigration Commission of Inquiry, October 1973 to January 197620 Quebec Superior Court, 1976–7921 Family Tragedy: Arthur’s Death, 11 July 1978Quebec Court of Appeal22 Appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, 197923 Appellate Judging, 1979–8724 More Family TraumasSupreme Court of Canada25 Appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, 198726 Early Days on the Supreme Court of Canada27 Continuing Isolation on the Supreme Court28 Fifteen Years of Jurisprudence, 1987–2002: “The Great Dissenter”Selected Cases29 Sexual Assault: Seaboyer, 199130 Family Law and Spousal Support: Moge, 199231 Human Rights for Same-Sex Couples: Mossop, 199332 Tax Law and Sex Discrimination: Symes, 199333 More Deaths, 1987–9434 The Quebec Secession Reference: “The Most Important Case,” 199835 Fairness in Immigration Law: Baker, 199936 Epilogue on EwanchukA Wider Stage37 Judicial Education and International Influence38 Retirement: A Much Heralded ExitConclusion Notes Index
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University of British Columbia Press The New Lawyer Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe New Lawyer analyzes the profound impact changes in client needs and demands are having on how law is practised. Most legal clients are unwilling or unable to pay for protracted litigation and count on their lawyers to pursue just and expedient resolution. These clients are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the principles of legal practice. In this fully revised edition of the now classic text, Julie Macfarlane outlines how lawyers can meet new expectations by committing to lawyer-client collaboration, conflict resolution advocacy, and revised financial structures so that the legal profession can remain relevant in this rapidly changing environment.Table of ContentsForeword / Kari Boyle and Jennifer Muller1 Changes in the Legal Profession and the Emergence of the New Lawyer2 The Making of a Lawyer: How Professional Identity Develops3 What Lawyers Believe: Three Key Professional Beliefs4 Legal Negotiations5 The New Advocacy6 The Lawyer/Client Relationship7 The Shadow of the Law8 Ethical Challenges for the New Lawyer9 Where the Action Is: Sites of ChangeEpilogueNotes, Index
£67.15
University of Toronto Press Brian Dickson
Book SynopsisWhen Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas of private and public law under the Charter of Rights, were the subject of intense public interest and concern.Brian Dickson played a leading role in this transformation. Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an inside look at the work of the Supreme Court during its most crucial period. Dickson's journey was an important part of the evolution of the Canadian judiciary and of Canada itself. Sharpe and Roach have written an accessible biography of one of Canada's greatest legal figureTrade Review'Both as a biography and as an exposition of judging at the highest level, this is a vital piece of writing. Were it a legal judgment, it would constitute a landmark.' -- Kirk Makin Globe and Mail 'The authors write in a style that rivals Dickson's for clarity and force.' -- Paul Truster Law Times 'This is an important and historic work ... With impeccable research and meticulous analysis, Sharpe and Roach give readers unprecedented access to Dickson's life and career.' -- Brenlee Carrington Winnipeg Free Press 'Not just a lawyer's book, nor simply a biography, but a book of important modern Canadian political history ... [Brian Dickson] takes the reader on a tour of what is unique about Canada through the life of one of its greatest citizens.' -- Chris Axworthy Great Plains Quarterly
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Stanford University Press Law Mart
Book SynopsisAmerican law schools are in deep crisis. Enrollment is down, student loan debt is up, and the profession's supply of high-paying jobs is shrinking. Meanwhile, thousands of graduates remain underemployed while the legal needs of low-income communities go substantially unmet. Many blame overregulation and seek a free market to solve the problem, but this has already been tested. Seizing on a deregulatory policy shift at the American Bar Association, private equity financiers established the first for-profit law schools in the early 2000s with the stated mission to increase access to justice by serving the underserved. Pursuing this mission at a feverish rate of growth, they offered the promise of professional upward mobility through high-tech, simplified teaching and learning. In Law Mart, a vivid ethnography of one such environment, Riaz Tejani argues that the rise of for-profit law schools shows the limits of a market-based solution to American access to justice. Building on theories iTrade Review"Law Mart is a compulsively readable and dark tale of a for-profit law school. The school's stated mission is to provide 'access' and 'innovation' to underserved populations, admitting students with low scores and limited options. Out of sight of students and accreditors is a corporate operation that uses emotional intelligence testing for employees, implements curricular reforms to satisfy nervous investors, and fires and intimidates professors who object to changes they perceive as detrimental to the students. This compelling book raises serious concerns about the permeation of economic imperatives in academia." -- Brian Z. Tamanaha * Washington University School of Law *"Riaz Tejani regards legal education as integral to the democratization of the legal profession, and to democracy itself. Written from that critical starting point, his account of the blurring of public and private interests in for-profit law schools is both searing and subtle – relevant and accessible to anyone interested in higher education, law and contemporary liberalism." -- Carol J. Greenhouse * Princeton University *"Law Mart offers an extremely insightful and smart analysis of for-profit law schools. Tejani's book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the legal profession and its aspirations to make legal education and access to justice a right for all. Given the current conservative political climate of deregulation and laissez-faire capitalism, this book's importance takes on new meaning and significance." -- Eve Darian-Smith, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Tejani's skills as anthropologist and lawyer shine in this incisive account of U.S. for-profit law schools. With deceptive ease, his lucid prose moves us from analyses of the market and the economy, through morality and legal ethics, to deeply-rooted ethnography that takes us into the heart of a malaise in U.S. legal education. This book is a must-read for all those concerned about that malaise." -- Elizabeth Mertz * American Bar Foundation *"Tejani explores the tensions between law, economics, and morality when justice becomes a commodity and higher education is produced en masse. The book weaves narratives and data collected from research on one particular school's operations with analysis of the broader business model's implications across higher education." -- Harvard Law Review"One of the great strengths of Tejani's book is that it is not a simplistic account fo the exploitation of students and academics by financiers seeking egregious profits. Tejani explores how students who would not have qualified for traditional law schools and who would not, on their own, have been able to navigate admissions and financing routes, were helped into law school by New Delta." -- Anthony Bradney * Journal of Law and Society *"This considered and timely study reveals that the attempt to absorb market-based thinking into higher education is fraught...Tejani shows insightfully how the move towards greater diversity within the student body in legal education is a direct outcome of neoliberalism rather than the manifestation of an increased sensibility in favour of social justice, as it is claimed to be.... In highlighting the contradictions inherent in for-profit law schools, Tejani poses the provocative question of how faculty can fulfill their responsibility of socializing students into ethical legal practice when they are implicated in producing a significant moral hazard....I highly recommend this excellent study as it addresses an issue of vital importance to all of us." -- Margaret Thornton * Canadian Journal of Sociology *"By exposing the fallacy of for profit legal education for what it is, Law Mart creates a compelling and absorbing narrative of legal education and the failure of oversight methodologies, and is a damning indictment not only of the industry but also the accreditors who claim to regulate it."––Andrew W. Jurs, St. John's Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Enrollment: Precarity, Casualization, and Alternative Admissions chapter abstractChapter 1 presents the recruitment and training practices that fill the new institution with flesh and blood people. This chapter discusses New Delta School of Law's practices of recruitment of faculty and enrollment of students—its techniques for finding the human resources making up its organization. Through the use of various techniques, the school and its parent company generated and maintained managed precarity—a condition whereby teachers and students remain within its purview as employees and clients out of felt necessity more than elective choice. Chapter 1 argues that the operationalization of professional diversity through increased "access" to legal education permitted NDSL to forestall market discipline at a time when many expressed faith in the winnowing function of a legal education free market. 2"Charter Review": Policy as Culture and Ideology chapter abstractChapter 2 gives readers a window onto the corporate "culture" of the proprietary law school. There, it argues that the unique law school culture of NDSL served to hold back community reflection on the moral hazard of for-profit legal education. Through structured repetition and reflection, faculty and staff were taught to embrace the ideology of access rather than dwell on their underlying business model—one that generated millions of dollars annually in "subprime" student debt and transformed them into off-site investor returns. 3The Legal Education Moral Economy Bubble chapter abstractChapter 3 describes the feverish growth of the school in the years following onset of the Great Recession. This sudden growth, leading to logistical problems inadequately prepared for, had immediate effects on the 450 new students brought in as first years in 2011. Nevertheless, as this chapter argues, difficulty meeting investor obligations—rather than any great concern for logistical or pedagogical limitations—would quickly impose a limit to this large burst of entrepreneurial expansion. 4Law School 2.0: Marketing Integration, Educating Investors chapter abstractChapter 4 argues that Legal Education 2.0's emergence had less to do with substantive improvements for law student learning than with pacifying investor fears about the new "crisis" in legal education. Under new professional realities, fourth-tier law schools had to reinvent themselves or risk dissolution. Law Corp, fearful of the investor call on its capital, ordered each of its three schools to develop a new curriculum. At New Delta, the result was a campaign for integrating curriculum soon labeled "Legal Education 2.0." 5Shared Governance in the Proprietary Legal Academy chapter abstractChapter 5 moves from reinvention to survival. It describes in detail how school administration conducted and mediated faculty deliberation and democratic ratification of the revised curriculum proposal. This includes a retelling of the unique manner in which the reforms were ultimately passed and the direct impact this had on governance, academic freedom, and basic feelings of respect and dignity among students and educators in this unique environment. Above all, it suggests, Law Corp officers succeeded in confirming a marketable reform agenda by framing the debate as one between tradition and innovation. 6"They Want the Rebels Gone": Contract Relations in a Fiscal State of Exception chapter abstractChapter 6 describes how this fiscal "state of exception" changed the structure of school governance by altering the terms by which employees were retained. That shift, from customary to contractual security of position, situates this story within the larger context of neoliberal governance and legal culture. On one hand, academic employees were asked to expand their duties into business development. In one notable episode, NDSL sent several professors to Botswana to establish ties with the national bar, train judges and attorneys in common law jurisprudence, and develop this as a new income stream. On the other hand, with threats of a "reduction in force" in the air, NDSL revised its faculty employment terms, resulting in a conflict with and ultimate termination of tenured senior professors. Amid this information's rapid spread on social media, students flew into a panic and began requesting letters of recommendation to transfer out in record numbers. 7The Policy Cascade: Deregulation and Moral Hazard chapter abstractChapter 7 argues the regulatory frameworks governing schools like New Delta have been greatly shaped by the rhetoric of student access. Accepting school officials' narrative that the main hurdle to professional diversity is becoming a lawyer, the scrutiny of key regulatory actors—here the Department of Education and the American Bar Association—has been unable to properly grasp the potential harm for-profit law schools are liable to generate. In other words, these schools may not only produce substantial moral hazard, they may also promote the transmission of moral hazard to a new generation of would-be lawyers often rendered as "officers of the court." Conclusion: The Trouble with Differentiation chapter abstractThe conclusion recaps the book's main themes to reassert its two core claims. The first, directed at legal audiences, says that differentiation by marketization—by exposure to the disciplinary power of free markets—is likely to exacerbate professional inequalities. No longer just a theory, this form of differentiation is indeed already on display at New Delta and its sister schools. Thanks to rollbacks in oversight prompted by both antitrust litigation in the 1990s and regulatory capture in the 2000s, the ABA's relatively hands-off approach to for-profit law programs has allowed them to recruit a diversity of students more freely while offering them a different educational program. As my informants describe, these students enter a local profession that already stigmatizes them for this pedigree. Introduction: Marketing Justice chapter abstractThis chapter introduces Law Mart, an ethnography of for-profit law schools, as a contribution to the anthropology of policy and contemporary legal education crisis and reform debates. It explains the recent historical background to the study in a period of significant "boom and bust" in the law school and legal services sector. The chapter situates this intervention among social studies of legal culture, profession, and education. The introduction then offers the book's two core claims. One, directed at legal audiences, says that differentiation by marketization—by exposure to the disciplinary power of free markets—is likely to exacerbate professional inequalities. The second, directed at anthropologists, underscores how the metaphor of the "market" has come to occupy the imagination of so many, reformers included, in American academic law.
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Stanford University Press How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the ONE book you should read before starting law school—and then re-read every semester. Make sure your parents and your significant other read it, too. Be prepared to laugh, and perhaps to cry. Kathryne Young has seen and done, or at least heard, it all. Learn to love law school and life from her." -- Nora Demleitner * Washington & Lee University *"Calm, wise, funny, compassionate, creative, enlightened...law students??? Okay, so perhaps these aren't the first words that most lawyers would use to describe themselves at law school, but this eloquent and absorbing book puts such virtues within reach, even for the most harried lawyer-to-be. I'm using it as a guide to a sort-of-happier life, myself, and I'm not even a law student!" -- Ruth Ozeki * bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being *"How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School comes at a most important time in legal education and will be of immeasurable benefit to law students. Kathryne Young's insights—many borne out of her own experience, alongside the experience of many attorneys—offer an honest and rare glimpse into the challenges of law school. Young provides readers with a useful and hopeful path to more fully experience the excitement and realize the opportunities found in law school and the practice of law." -- Scott L. Rogers * University of Miami *"As the saying goes, happiness is a function of expectations. If that's the case, How To Be Sort of Happy in Law School is an important correction to many harmful myths concerning law school success, opening up new ways for students to think about their legal educations and careers. With wit that is only outdone by its wisdom, this book should be included in every law student's admission packet for years to come." -- Osagie K. Obasogie, University of California, Berkeley * Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health *"How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School is a remarkably wise book. A lawyer-turned-sociologist, Katie Young combines a critical perspective on the law school experience with concrete steps law students can take to survive, and even thrive. Her readers will come away from the book reassured that they are not alone, and inspired to tackle the challenges in front of them with courage, common sense, and even a good laugh every now and then." -- Pamela S. Karlan * Stanford Law School *"Where was Kathryne Young when I was trying to decide whether to go to law school? When I was trying to decide whether to drop out? When I was outlining torts, sobbing, in the library? And when I was freaking out about jobs? Never mind. She's here now. I'm so glad that generations of law students, lawyers, and legal academics, and the folks who love them will have her patient, generous, and deeply wise voice in their heads as they launch into a life in the law. Or decide not to, which is also allowed. A big-hearted look at what can be a cold-hearted time. A must-read for the young lawyers in your orbit." -- Dahlia Lithwick * Slate *"Young's book is a great resource for law students that I plan on recommending to current or potential law students. I also found the book to contain some excellent practical advice that can help us be happier judges, lawyers, and law professors." -- Tessa L. Dysart * Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors *"[Young's] fundamentally humanistic view should also inspire law teachers to make student empowerment and personal development to a central aspect of their work." -- Bernhard Bergmans * Yearbook of Legal Education 2018/19 *"Young does an excellent job preparing the reader to navigate the unique emotional challenges law school presents. The coverage of this topic is unmatched in any other law school advice book." -- Paul Caron * TaxProf Blog *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Why I Wrote This Book chapter abstractWhy would someone who didn't always like being a law student write How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School? In the introduction, Young explains her motivations for writing the book, describing how working toward her JD and PhD concurrently gave her a new perspective on law school and detailing the design and data sources underpinning the book's mixed-methods study. 1You Are Not Alone chapter abstractLaw students find themselves dissatisfied for a whole host of reasons, including debt, occupational uncertainty, a high-pressure workload, mental health challenges, difficult peers, or a sense that the student's former self is slipping away. This chapter details the myriad reasons students tend to feel unhappy or out of place in law school, using data from dozens of law students to illustrate the breadth of forms the sense of nonbelonging takes. At the same time, law students are good at pretending that everything is fine, which makes people feel even more individually isolated. But although law school is supposed to be hard, and although some angst doubtlessly comes with the territory, law school need not wreak havoc on students' well-being. 2You Are Good Enough to Be Here chapter abstractThe first section of this chapter addresses how impostor syndrome—the persistent sense that you are not really good enough to be where you are—constantly plagues law students. This chapter describes the social and psychological dynamics of impostor syndrome, detailing the thought patterns that characterize it and ten practical strategies for combating it. Using data from current law students, Young explains why law school is often so difficult for people who come in with a track record of academic excellence and how law students can shift their outlook away from thinking in terms of what they "should" do. Lastly, this chapter argues that law students take a needlessly Sisyphean approach, overvaluing self-reliance in realms where it would be to their advantage to enlist others' help. While many alumni Young surveyed wished they had asked for more help in law school, no alumni wished they had sought less help. 3Why Are You Here? chapter abstractThis chapter first asks law students to perform a critical, honest assessment of their own reasons for going to law school. It lists many common reasons people choose law school and provides an exercise to help readers identify their own. The chapter then asks students to perform a similar assessment of the passions that brought them to law school. Young argues that law students need to understand the bulk of their training as that of technicians, not inventors, and to reconcile this training with the goals they hope to achieve. Finally, this chapter connects the research literature on subjective well-being (SWB) to the social psychological notion of flow and explains why law school is not a flow-optimizing social setting. It explains that flow and SWB will be critical concepts in the remainder of the book and offers ways that law students might begin engaging with both concepts. 4Understanding the Storm chapter abstractLife course research suggests that people's 20s can be a particularly challenging time, and Young uses data from current law students to describe the ways in which law school amplifies and exacerbates life challenges in a way that increases anxiety and depression. Courses' emphasis on detailed interpretations, precedent, and incremental change can frustrate students who hoped that law school would equip them to effect sweeping reform. Young urges law students to use this frustration to stay in touch with their own sensibilities rather than interpret it as a sign that they do not belong in law school. This chapter then details the differences between law school and other postgraduate education, offering several strategies for law students who crave more intellectual engagement. Finally, this chapter reminds the reader that a JD can be a means to many different ends—only one of which is legal practice. 5Should You Drop Out? chapter abstractYoung's research suggests that one in three law school alumni considered dropping out at some point during law school. Even though it's not widely discussed, the possibility is on many law students' minds. This chapter offers good and bad reasons both for staying in law school and for dropping out, emphasizing that staying and leaving are both choices. It leads wavering students through the decision process and uses data from law school alums to advise current students. Next, the chapter addresses the financial aspects of dropping out, including the sunk-cost problem and debt-repayment timelines. Young then shares stories from law school dropouts she interviewed, pointing out that as long as they stay true to their passions and interests, both dropouts and non-dropouts report being happy many years later. The chapter ends with nuts-and-bolts advice for law students who are seriously considering dropping out. 6Don't Just Follow the Crowd chapter abstractCreating a life you truly love is harder than simply striving for the most prestigious accomplishments, because it requires introspection and self-knowledge. This chapter helps students recognize when their choices are motivated primarily by risk aversion and suggests that students should think carefully about taking advantage of opportunities such as law review membership or on-campus interviews simply because they confer prestige. The chapter's final section, "Take a Stand," argues that although law students are willing to argue hypothetical positions, they are often reluctant to take actual positions on important issues. Young argues against this capitulation to risk aversion, quoting Professor Pamela S. Karlan that "Sitting on the fence is not practice for standing up." 7Identity Matters chapter abstractDrawing on data from current law students, Young details the social processes and patterns within law school, as described by law students who embody minority and intersectional identities of many different types. Specific sections of this chapter are devoted to the identities law students described as most relevant to their law school experiences, including gender and sex(ism); race, racism, and racial identity; social class and cultural capital; sexual orientation and gender nonconformity; political beliefs. The chapter emphasizes the importance of understanding the challenges and strengths presented by one's own identity, as well as the importance of receptivity to other people's identities in law school and the open discussion of all identities in law school more generally. 8A Law School State of Mind chapter abstractLaw school is an extremely difficult setting in which to keep one's perspective. Finals, interviews, and other rites of passage are subjectively experienced as make-or-break moments, which raise student stress and lower tolerance for ambiguity. This chapter draws on several different literatures to help law students develop a more balanced outlook. Young teaches law students how to capitalize on psychological research about fixed and growth mindsets, explaining how cultivating a growth mindset will help them not just in law school, but in legal practice as well. Additionally, the chapter describes the key principles of mindfulness: the practice of systematically paying attention to what's going on in one's own mind. It explains that there are many methods of practicing mindfulness, ranging from meditation to cognitive behavioral therapy. Young shares six mindfulness exercises that she developed for law students with the help of a Buddhist priest. 9The Art of Alleviating Stress chapter abstractOne of the survey questions Young asked current law students was, "Describe the time in the past week you've felt the happiest." This chapter shares some of their answers, drawing both on these students' experience and sociological and psychological research to detail several strategies for time management and stress alleviation. These include "wasting" part of your summer, exposing yourself to poetry or art, and avoiding "stealth time vacuums." The chapter ends with special advice for creative law students who have lost touch with their creative selves in law school—a pattern documented in the literature and one Young finds can be particularly harmful to law students' well-being. 10Finances and Physicalities chapter abstractThis chapter is an extremely nuts-and-bolts guide to some of the most practical parts of law school life. It begins with finances, outlining fundamental guidelines for spending and saving money while accumulating debt, living on law school loans, and trying to cobble together a reasonably comfortable life. The chapter then turns to various physicalities. Using data from her study of current law students, as well as previous research from multiple disciplines, Young identifies common obstacles to law student happiness and suggests ways—often counterintuitive ones—that law students might adjust their lives and schedules to improve their well-being. The key areas discussed are physical exercise, sleep, eating habits, living arrangements, and choosing the most effective study spaces. 11Mental Well-Being chapter abstractThis chapter, co-authored by law school mental health expert Dr. Katherine M. Bender, sets out a compelling case that law student mental health is in serious crisis. Depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, self-harm, and prescription drug use are all serious problems among law students and among practicing lawyers. Young and Bender draw on recent psychological and sociological research to discuss symptoms and causes of these and other common mental health challenges for law students, destigmatizing and demystifying the challenges as well as the process of getting help. How does a law student know if his or her symptoms rise to the level of a problem? How can he or she recognize symptoms in other people? Where can law students seek help? 12Peers chapter abstractThis first chapter of "Part IV: Managing Relationships" discusses the reasons that many students find law school to be a site of extreme social stress. In an atmosphere pervaded by insecurity and uncertainty, law students can whip one another into a frenzy over almost anything. Peer-induced stress is hard to avoid, and this chapter equips law students to minimize it. Young offers strategies for finding people with whom you truly connect in law school, even if the social scene is snobby, cliquish, or overwhelming. Additionally, the chapter explains several important ways that law students can avoid contributing to the pressure-cooker atmosphere themselves: disengaging from the law school scene when necessary, being a good citizen, and most importantly, committing microinclusions—the opposite of microaggressions—to increase others' sense of belonging. 13Professors and Law School Administrators chapter abstractThe days of Professor Kingsfield are over—sort of—but law professors continue to play an outsized role in law student life. This chapter relates some bests and worsts of professorial behavior and provides strategic advice for dealing with the latter. It explains how and why to cultivate a good working relationship with at least a few favorite professors (without being a suck-up), and gives advice for getting the most out of office hours, even in classes with intimidating professors. Finally, the chapter demystifies the often-opaque role of law school administrators, explaining what kinds of help they can offer to students. 14Relationships (Mostly) Outside of Law School chapter abstractLaw school can be an extremely insular experience, which can complicate law students' relationships with people outside of law school. But while no one who hasn't been through law school can fully "get" it, there are some best practices for maintaining relationships with friends and loved ones from within the law school bubble. This chapter draws on data from current law students' experiences to suggest best practices. How do you manage family drama while you're trying to prepare for finals? How do you break it to your best college buddy that you're missing his Vegas birthday blowout for a Moot Court competition? And how can you maintain a successful romantic relationship with a partner who doesn't understand why you're so stressed out all the time? 15Choosing Courses chapter abstractLaw students are told a great many things about what courses they should take during law school—but how much of this is true? Should all law students take a clinic? Are bar courses really that important? Do employers care what classes are on a student's transcript? This chapter helps students think carefully about their curricular choices, offering reasons to take (or avoid) particular classes. Additionally, Young uses data from surveys of law school alumni to pinpoint the skills they use most frequently in practice and which they wish they had developed in law school. The chapter advises law students how to tailor their course schedule to develop a skill set that will serve them well in the future, including specific courses outside the law school. 16Surviving (Thriving?) in Class chapter abstractThis chapter describes how to get the most out of the classroom experience in law school. Young argues that cold calling is usually poor pedagogy, but it is something law students must learn to navigate. Law students' anxiety about cold calling can generally be managed with a few small changes and reframing exercises, freeing students to spend their psychological energy in class actually learning the material. The chapter also draws on educational and psychological research about specific in-class strategies for focusing, paying attention, and remembering information. Is it better to handwrite or take notes on a laptop? What do you do if your attention constantly wanders? Is it okay to give up on a course you dislike? This chapter tackles these questions and others that are crucial to law student learning. 17Reading and Outlining chapter abstractWhen it comes to law school performance, reading and outlining is a law student's bread and butter—yet these skills are decidedly not part of the law school curriculum. This chapter helps law students figure out how to go about their daily work in a way that maximizes their retention of information while making efficient use of their time. Topics include how to cope when you haven't finished the reading, why outlining is usually beneficial, how to do it efficiently, and the oft-debated role of commercial outlines and hornbooks in law student learning. This chapter ends with a thorough treatment of study groups: why they are not always necessary, why they can be a good idea, the breadth of ways study groups can be used, and how to assemble an effective study group, plan meetings, and maximize each member's contributions. 18Exams and Grades chapter abstractYoung's data show that, of all of law school's conventions, many law students find the grading structure the most taxing: a long semester of work, followed by a single test at the end that determines a student's entire grade. While this may be poor pedagogy—Young argues that it exacerbates the structural advantages and disadvantages students bring to law school—it is a structure with which modern law students are, for now, stuck. This chapter helps them learn to excel within an imperfect system. Drawing on an extended example from Professor Orin Kerr, this chapter walks students through the practicalities of drafting a thorough, responsive, and high-scoring exam answer and explains how students can craft their study time and exam time to maximize their chances of an impressive performance. Finally, this chapter puts grades into a larger perspective: What do they really mean for students' lives and careers? 19Designing Your Post–Law School Life chapter abstractThe final chapter of this book will help law students think more broadly about their careers and lives after law school. In an unconventional discussion of the everyday realities of life and legal practice, Young challenges law students to think flexibly, creatively, mindfully, and introspectively in figuring out what they want their lives to look like after law school. The chapter draws heavily on the sociological literature about lawyers' subjective well-being and points out surprising patterns—for example, the counterintuitive trajectory through which a high law school GPA can lead to a dissatisfying legal career and the factors that are (and are not) reliable empirical predictors of lawyers' happiness. Young acknowledges that every path involves sacrifice but urges law students to reflect carefully on what makes them happy; she stresses that students need to begin carving a path that prioritizes these aspects of life over prestige and conventionality. Conclusion: Becoming Yourself chapter abstractIn the throes of law school, students forget that they have agency in creating their experiences and that there is no ideal way to "do" law school. Young concludes by reminding readers to use law school to shape them into the lawyers and people they want to be.
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Wayne State University Press Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Book SynopsisRepresenting Michigan for thirty-six years in the US Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogged pursuit of the truth, his commitment to holding government accountable, and his basic decency. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate is his story.Trade Review[Carl Levin is] the model of serious purpose, principle, and personal decency, whose example ought to inspire the service of new and returning senators. Carl and I served together for five terms-thirty years-and we developed a very strong bond of personal trust. Our word was our bond and the security of our nation was always foremost. Even though we are from different political parties, we share a love of country, a commitment to do what is right, and a deep mutual admiration and respect for each other. We never let our policy differences turn into personal differences. And we served in a Senate where bipartisanship was something to be sought after, where compromise was not a dirty word but an essential ingredient to make our government function better. Getting to the Heart of the Matter reminds us there are patriots like Carl Levin who define 'honesty, integrity, and civility.' In a lifetime of dedicated service, he made government more accountable, the nation more secure, and fought for opportunity for all. He is an American hero. The Dingell and Levin families have shared decades of friendship and public service. Getting to the Heart of the Matter is a heartfelt, thoughtful narrative of his career which had a positive impact on so many people. Everyone interested in public service should read this. Carl Levin's life and work continue to be an inspiration to each of us who have had the privilege of knowing him. His commitment to public service and the leadership he exemplifies have made a remarkable and historic contribution to the country. His beautifully written autobiography makes me wish we had more like him now. Care about integrity? Read this book. Given up on finding truly selfless politicians? Read this book. Senator Carl Levin's riveting biography is food for our decency-starved souls and is a page-turning must-read for future public servants and all who love Michigan. Over fifty years of immersion in the Senate-writing about it, interacting with its members, and working inside it-I have seen very few of its members garner the universal admiration and respect of Carl Levin. Getting to the Heart of the Matter is a memoir, but it is much more than that. Writing about his six terms in the Senate, Levin gives us an intimate, inside portrait of thirty-six years of key policy decisions and political developments in the country-and his role, often a pivotal one, in many of them. Along the way, we get a sense of how the Senate worked during those decades. This book is a tribute to a remarkable, important career and is a must-read for all who care about the country, its values, and the workings of its institutions going forward. Senator Carl Levin is the epitome of a dedicated statesman. His wise, effective, and collegial service to our nation is admirable. His memoir is a must-read for those who seek to understand how our government should work. Carl Levin served as the de facto conscience of the United States Senate for thirty-six years. He never forgot the people he grew up with in Detroit where he started out driving a taxi and working in an automobile factory. As chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Levin ferreted out wrongdoing, abuses of taxpayers, and failed policies, its reports all issued with bipartisan agreement, a remarkable feat of dignity, duty, and moral strength in our era. Getting to the Heart of the Matter is an account of a splendid Senate career by one of its greats. But it is also a well-timed reminder of what the Senate is supposed to be: a place where the national good is earnestly considered, not a viper's nest for conspiracy theories and vitriol. Levin, a Democratic stalwart if ever there was one, was never a shrinking violet when it came to issues he cared about, and there were plenty of those. But his old-fashioned sense of fair play helped him forge productive relationships with Republicans and craft bipartisan legislation in the days before that phrase became an oxymoron.
£25.46
Wayne State University Press No Equal Justice
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Civil Rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion. The stories of Black lawyers and judges are rarely told. By sharing George Crockett's life of principled courage, No Equal Justice breaks this silence.
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New York University Press Law on Display The Digital Transformation of
Book SynopsisWith a survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, this book explains how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words - only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change.Trade ReviewIn Law on Display, authors, Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel offer us a unified and thoughtful way to parse digital images not just about the legal system, but about the manner in which we interpret it... Law on Display is an important book that both the legal theorist and the practicing attorney should read. -- Christine A. Corcos * International Journal of Semiotics Law *Feigenson and Spiesel combine their impressive talents in law and visual persuasion to provide us with an insightful account of how new media are transforming legal advocacy in powerful new directions. Their critical analyses of fascinating case studies illustrate how cutting-edge lawyers are employing visual and digital media. The authors alert us to the new media’s transformative capacity yet also its manipulative potential, and cogently discuss the ethical and legal quandaries that new media present for the courts. Highly recommended. -- Valerie P. Hans,co-author of American Juries: The VerdictFeigenson and Spiesel persuasively argue for a more critical and contextualizing approach to the growing flood of digital imagery in the courtroom. Given the enormous power of imagery to sway opinions and the innovative ways in which visuals can now be presented, judges, jurors, and especially lawyers are obligated to know how to interrogate these new forms of evidence and explication. Law on Display serves as a timely and comprehensive introduction to digital visual literacy in the legal system. -- Fred Ritchin,author of After PhotographyThis is a widely informed, wisely reasoned, accessible analysis of how, for good or for evil, digital visual technology is transforming the conduct of trials and the very meaning of truth in the courtroom. It is essential reading alike for litigators and for everyone concerned with the legal fall-out of our cultures accelerating shift from verbal to multimedia communication and comprehension. -- Anthony G. Amsterdam,New York University School of LawThis book should be on the bookshelf of every practicing lawyer. [] In summary, the authors have highlighted a significant lacunae in the education of lawyers and judges failure to resolve the lack of understanding of the images and types of images introduced into legal proceedings could have seriously adverse effects on the legal system. * Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1 The Digital Visual Revolution 2 The Rhetoric of the Real: Videotape as Evidence 3 Teaching the Case 4 Picturing Scientific Evidence 5 Multimedia Arguments 6 Into the Screen: Toward Virtual Judgment 7 Ethics and Justice in the Digital Visual Age Notes Index About the Authors
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New York University Press Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy
Book SynopsisIn 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journalsunprecedented for a self-published workand influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from the anarchist idea of workplace organizing, for struggle in that direction. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy is comprehensive, covering everything about law school from the first day to moot court to job placement to life after law school. Kennedy''s book remains one of the most cited works on American legal education.The visually striking original text iTrade ReviewDuncan Kennedys little red book has become a classic. But now with its republication twenty years later, Kennedy's & polemic against the systemtakes us beyond its origins as a field guide to legal education. Amplified by the voices of other distinguished scholars, this stunning collection of essays forces us to consider the ways in which hierarchies and their resulting social alienation disfigure contemporary society, not just our law schools. -- Lani Guinier,Harvard UniversityDuncan Kennedy's critique of legal education now gets the wide distribution it deserves. Kennedy's insightful skewering of legal education, supplemented by his own reflections on the work and views of other legal educators, will provide prospective law students with a flavor of what they are in for and will remind lawyers of what they went through. Kennedy's message is as important today as it was two decades ago when he first penned this work. -- Mark Tushnet,Georgetown UniversityKennedys book remains one of the defining blows of critical legal studies and an enduring challenge to the entire structure of legal education. It remains as vital, incisive and daring as when it first appeared. -- Scott Turow,author of One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School.An important founding text in the history of critical approaches to law taken by scholars located in law schools. * The Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Duncan KennedyLegal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic against the System Duncan KennedyReproducing the Right Sort of Hierarchy Paul CarringtonThe Spiritual Foundation of Attachment to Hierarchy Peter GabelPower and Resistance in Contemporary Legal Education Angela Harris and Donna MaedaOf Time and the Pedagogy of Critical Legal Studies Janet HalleyAfterword Duncan KennedyAbout the Contributors
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New York University Press William M. Kunstler The Most Hated Lawyer in
Book SynopsisDefending those loathed by mainstream, conventional America, William Kunstler has delighted in taking on fiercely political cases. This text studies his career, asking what ideological and tactical motives explain his craving for media attention and drive for action.Trade Review"Langum opens a fascinating window on four decades of legal firestorms and the lawyer who stood close to the flames." * Library Journal *"A thoughtfully enthusiastic critique, Langum outlines the life, loves, and legal struggles of the radical lawyer who defended such diverse clients as the Chicago Seven, the Attica prison insurgents, Jack Ruby, and John Gotti." * Kirkus Reviews *"A vivid biography." * Publishers Weekly *"Langum paints a large, sympathetic portrait of a keen and angry man." * New York Times *"Probative and insightful . . . Langum goes beyond the conventional reading of Kunstler to uncover a man who often embellished his experiences to get at deeper truths about American society." * Booklist *
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New York University Press The Law and Society Reader II
Book SynopsisLaw and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. This book provides readers an accessible overview to the breadth of recent developments in this research tradition, bringing to life the developments in this dynamic field.Trade Review"The Law & Society Reader II is a cornucopia of knowledge and insight on the biggest questions in the sociolegal tradition. Co-editors Larson and Schmidt have done a fabulous job selecting, organizing, editing, and introducing many of best articles over the last two decades into an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers. Every serious sociolegal scholar needs to have this volume." -- Michael McCann,Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of Washington"The Law & Society Reader II offers academics, students, and the general public a diverse, comprehensive window on some of the most innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on law produced in recent decades. It highlights how the field has become globalized and increasingly aware of the ways in which consciousness infuses legality. The Reader provides an accessible introduction to those new to the field and an indispensable overview for others already familiar with particular facets." -- Richard Abel,editor of The Law & Society Reader, 1995"In this volume Larson and Schmidt have creatively captured the spirit and diversity of law and society research published over the last 20+ years." -- Herbert M. Kritzer,editor, Law & Society Review, 2003-07"Offering a stunning collection of disciplinarily diverse, cutting-edge research . . . this collection describes the way law works as a system of ideas, as a source of social identity, and as a force of social organization, inequality, as well as equality and social change. . . . The anthology will be very useful for students seeking access to this flourishing field of scholarship at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and others who simply want an overview of how law works." -- Susan S. Silbey,Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, MIT"An important antidote to the still dominant approach in law schools that teaches legal doctrine via isolated appellate opinions. This book puts law, lawyers, and legal institutions in their social and cultural context. Larson and Schmidt provide an engaging follow-up volume to Rick Abels groundbreaking 1995 reader, effectively excerpting recent articles from the leading socio-legal studies journal, the Law & Society Review." -- Laura E. Gomez,University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt Part I: Inequalities Does Law Benefit Those with the Most Resources? 7 1. Do the "Haves" Still Come Out Ahead? 13 Joel B. Grossman, Herbert M. Kritzer, and Stewart Macaulay 2. The Rule of Law and the Litigation Process: The Paradox of Losing by Winning 16 Catherine Albiston 3. The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization 24 Joseph A. Conti How Do Authority and Power Influence the Implementation of Law? 4. Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideology in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking 35 Lisa Frohmann 5. The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime 42 Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness Can Rights-Based Litigation Address Inequalities? 6. Popular Constitutionalism's Hard When You're Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts 55 Emily Zackin 7. Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights 62 Thomas M. Keck For Full Description Visit: http://nyupress.org/webchapters/larson_toc.pdf
£23.74
MD - Duke University Press Managing Legal Uncertainty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Managing Legal Uncertainty offers an original account of lawyers in the New Deal. It challenges conventional wisdom in a provocative and persuasive fashion."—Robert Jerome Glennon, University of Arizona College of Law"Richly detailed, Managing Legal Uncertainty examines the activities of the organized bar during the period of the New Deal in much greater depth than previous accounts. It will quickly become a standard, both in the legal history of the New Deal, and in the literature on the history of the profession."—Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law School
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Honorable Lives
Book SynopsisThis is the first work in English to discuss the social and political history of lawyers in a Latin American country. By exploring the lives of lawyers, Uribe-Uran is also able to focus on a general history of Latin America, while exploring key social and political changes and continuities from 1780 to 1850.
£37.95
Cornell University Press John Paul Stevens
Book SynopsisDuring Justice Sonya Sotomayor''s 2009 confirmation hearings, the idea of biography played a high-profile role in the debate. How much does a person''s experience affect his or her judicial opinions? Should personal history be a key consideration when determining qualifications to sit on the highest court in the land? In this impeccably researched book, journalist Bill Barnhart and retired lawyer and former legislator Gene Schlickman paint a detailed portrait of Justice John Paul Stevens'' remarkable life and tenure on the Court. Through vivid family history and a careful look at his work on the bench, Barnhart and Schlickman offer the first biography of the second longest-serving Supreme Court justice of the modern eraone who has proudly earned the title of the Court''s most prolific dissenter.To provide a nuanced and multifaceted look at the justice, Barnhart and Schlickman interviewed Stevens and an extraordinary number of Stevens'' friends and family members, former clerk
£19.94
University of Toronto Press Memoirs and Reflections
Book SynopsisFrom “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life.These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. This volume is both an account of his life in public service and a portrait of a humane, humorous, still optimistic, and always decent man.Trade Review'Memoirs, adds another dimension to a set of remarkable first-hand impressions of critical moments in Canadian history (including the patriation of the constitution), and a perspective on the idealism that made numerous achievements possible.' -- Ryan Alford Ontario History, Autumn 2016 "Here is a book that should be mandatory reading for every first year law student in Canada, as it is not only filled with a valuable history lesson about our legal profession but it also establishes some benchmarks that young lawyers might set for themselves as they launch their careers." -- Michael Cochrane JUST Magazine 'Memoirs and Reflections is a reader's delight... McMurtry's style is strong, elegant, and balanced to match a public and private life that cannot fail to fascinate and impress.' -- Jane Mattison Ekstam, British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 28:01:2015 'Memoirs and Reflections is a reader's delight... McMurtry's style is strong, elegant, and balanced to match a public and private life that cannot fail to fascinate and impress.' -- Jane Mattison Ekstram British Journal of Canadian Studies vol 28:01:2015 "A poignant reminder of a lost era when conservatives were 'Progressive' and a heart-warming account of a man whom history will no doubt record left Canada a better place than he found it." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "McMurtry's book provides a Red Tory elegy for the civility and moderation that have been twin victims of these toxic and partisan times." -- Jim Coyle Toronto StarTable of ContentsForeword by Jim Phillips Part One: Getting Established Part Two: The Practice of Law Part Three: Attorney General of Ontario Part Four: At the Court of St James and Home Again Part Six: Retirement Acknowledgments Index
£31.50
University of Toronto Press My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures
Book SynopsisSince his call to the Bar in 1960, Martin L. Friedland has been involved in a number of important public policy issues, including bail, legal aid, gun control, securities regulation, access to the law, judicial independence and accountability, and national security. My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures offers a first-hand account of the development of these areas of law from the perspective of a man who was heavily involved in their formation and implementation. It is also the story of a distinguished academic, author, and former dean of law at the University of Toronto.Moving beyond the boundaries of conventional memoir, Friedland offers an extended meditation on public policy issues and significant events in the field of law, discussing their historical impact and predicting the course of their future development. Given his personal experience, there is no other person more suited to discuss these hugely important issues. Friedland puts the law and legal institTrade ReviewMartin Friedland's recent book My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures is both a personal memoir and a lively review of much that has happened in Canadian legal policy during the last forty years. -- Christopher Moore Law Times All in all, My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures by Martin L. Friedland is a wonderful autobiography of an individual who has accomplished much and who has observed, studied and commented upon the critical issues of the last half-century with aplomb, insight and becoming modesty. -- Gilles Renaud Criminal Law QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword Preface Prologue 1.Legal Education 2. Articling and the Bar Ads 3. Cambridge and Double Jeopardy 4. The Enforcement of Morality 5. More Double Jeopardy 6. Detention before Trial 7. Legal Aid 8. Criminal Courts 9. Securities Regulation 10. Machinery of Law Reform 11. The Law Reform Commission of Canada 12. Access to the Law 13. Deaning and the University 14. Gun Control 15. National Security 16. More National Security - Terrorism 17. Codification of the Criminal Law 18. The Charter 19. The Trials of Israel Lipski 20. The Case of Valentine Shortis 21. The Death of Old Man Rice 22. The Frailty of the Criminal Process - Some Observations 23. Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System 24. Borderline Justice and Other Studies of Law and Society 25. A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability 26. Controlling Misconduct in the Military 27. Writing the History of the University of Toronto 28. Epilogue Notes on Sources Publications and Government Work of Martin L. Friedland Index
£34.20
University of Toronto Press Memoirs and Reflections
Book SynopsisFrom “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life.These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. This volume is both an account of his life in public service and a portrait of a humane, humorous, still optimistic, and always decent man.Trade Review'Memoirs, adds another dimension to a set of remarkable first-hand impressions of critical moments in Canadian history (including the patriation of the constitution), and a perspective on the idealism that made numerous achievements possible.' -- Ryan Alford Ontario History, Autumn 2016 "Here is a book that should be mandatory reading for every first year law student in Canada, as it is not only filled with a valuable history lesson about our legal profession but it also establishes some benchmarks that young lawyers might set for themselves as they launch their careers." -- Michael Cochrane JUST Magazine 'Memoirs and Reflections is a reader's delight... McMurtry's style is strong, elegant, and balanced to match a public and private life that cannot fail to fascinate and impress.' -- Jane Mattison Ekstam, British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 28:01:2015 'Memoirs and Reflections is a reader's delight... McMurtry's style is strong, elegant, and balanced to match a public and private life that cannot fail to fascinate and impress.' -- Jane Mattison Ekstram British Journal of Canadian Studies vol 28:01:2015 "A poignant reminder of a lost era when conservatives were 'Progressive' and a heart-warming account of a man whom history will no doubt record left Canada a better place than he found it." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "McMurtry's book provides a Red Tory elegy for the civility and moderation that have been twin victims of these toxic and partisan times." -- Jim Coyle Toronto StarTable of ContentsForeword by Jim Phillips Part One: Getting Established Part Two: The Practice of Law Part Three: Attorney General of Ontario Part Four: At the Court of St James and Home Again Part Six: Retirement Acknowledgments Index
£35.10
University of Toronto Press The Thousandth Man
Book SynopsisJames McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He distinguished himself mainly in constitutional cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During his career, Stewart was also head of the leading law firm in eastern Canada (now Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales), director and vice-president of the Royal Bank of Canada, and senior counsel to the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations.Above all, Stewart was committed to the idea of law as a truly learned profession and to the bar as the most important legal institution. To this day, no lawyer has held such prestige and power both within and outside Atlantic Canada;
£26.99
New York University Press The Law of Law School
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA powerful, timely, and relatable guide! A must-read for the summer before entering law school! -- Renée McDonald Hutchins, Dean and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Chair of Public Interest Law, University of the District of ColumbiaAn invaluable resource that can help alleviate some of the feelings of alienation and unfamiliarity that accompany law school. Law schools should provide this important book to all entering first-year students. -- Cortney E. Lollar, James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law, University of KentuckyA thoughtful and long-overdue introduction to every aspect of life as a law student. Essential reading for every new 1L seeking frank and practical advice on how to succeed. -- Louis Virelli, Stetson University College of Law
£12.34
New York University Press The Law of Law School
Book SynopsisOffers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live byDear Law Student: Here's the truth. You belong here. Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. What most first-year students don't realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed. The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as Remove the Drama, to studying tricks like Prepare for Class like an Appellate ArgumentTrade Review"A powerful, timely, and relatable guide! A must-read for the summer before entering law school!" -- Renée McDonald Hutchins, Dean and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Chair of Public Interest Law, University of the District of Columbia"An invaluable resource that can help alleviate some of the feelings of alienation and unfamiliarity that accompany law school. Law schools should provide this important book to all entering first-year students. " -- Cortney E. Lollar, James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky"A thoughtful and long-overdue introduction to every aspect of life as a law student. Essential reading for every new 1L seeking frank and practical advice on how to succeed." -- Louis Virelli, Stetson University College of Law
£58.50
New York University Press American Legal Education Abroad
Book SynopsisA critical history of the Americanization of legal education in fourteen countriesThe second half of the twentieth century witnessed the export of American powerboth hard and softthroughout the world. What role did US cultural and economic imperialism play in legal education? American Legal Education Abroad offers an unprecedented and surprising picture of the history of legal education in fourteen countries beyond the United States. Each study in this book represents a critical history of the Americanization of legal education, reexamining prevailing narratives of exportation, transplantation, and imperialism. Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that American ideas and practices have dominated globally. Editors Susan Bartie and David Sandomierski and their contributors suggest that to understand legal education and to respond thoughtfully to the mounting present-day challenges, it is essential to look beyond a particular region and consider not only the ideTrade Review"Bartie and Sandiomerski have brought together a distinguished group of authors who together encourage us to reflect on the extent to which the American model of legal education has been accommodated (or resisted) around the world. In addition to providing revealing insights into the ways in which different jurisdictions have interpreted the notion itself, the collection succeeds in demonstrating the ways in which local circumstances have influenced the way reception of American legal education has played out, with very different results. A fascinating read." -- Fiona Cownie, Professor of Law Emerita, Keele University"This fascinating collection of essays by eminent legal scholars and historians examines the global influence of American legal education. The essays are by no means formulaic, as the impact of American legal education is considered in the light of each country’s varied historical and political context, whether it be decolonization in Nigeria or post-Soviet experience in Estonia. The essays also eschew the simplistic and one-dimensional view that American legal education was accepted without question, as there was actual resistance on the part of France, for example, and Japan regarded it as irrelevant." -- Margaret Thornton, Professor of Law Emerita, The Australian National University"This excellent selection of essays presents the US law school in all its duality as both a powerful global cultural imaginary, and a highly contingent set of local practices. In its nuanced and geographically wide-ranging assessment of the ‘Americanization’ project, this book provides an important resource for scholars of the history and globalization of legal education." -- Julian Webb, Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, Australia"Contributors to Bartie and Sandomierski’s volume present a critical history of the Americanization of legal education in fourteen countries. They argue that the second half of the twentieth century witnessed the export of power—both hard and soft—throughout the world, and they focus on the effect of US cultural and economic imperialism on legal education. Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that American ideas and practices have dominated globally." * Law and Social Inquiry *"American Legal Education Abroad–Critical Histories is a book that deserves to be read by any legal scholar, particularly those interested in comparative legal history… it is an important contribution to the theory of legal transplants and adds a significant piece to the literature on the ‘Americanisation’ of law and legal culture." * Comparative Legal History *
£45.00
New York University Press Enticements
Book SynopsisProvides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex,gender, reproduction, and family.In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of Queer Legal Studies. The essays investigate a wildly proliferating assortment of genders, sexualities, and intimacies, questioning how they have been regulated, criminalized, or privileged by law and other regulatory forces.Enticements expands and expounds on the discipline of queer legal studies. Contributors focus on a wide range of sex/gender regulatory regimes, interrogating the use and abuse of queer history for impact litigation and social change, colonial and postcolonial sex laws otherwise obscured by the modern LGBT paradigm of sexual identity, and the policing of trans and cis men. Moving beyond a focus on LGBT identities, contributors consider limits to reproductive freedom, the ChristianTrade ReviewEnticements arrives exactly when we need it, filling the scholarly vacuum to be found between queer and legal theory. As LGBTQ legal studies calcifies into a field, the essays in Enticements lure us away from that disciplinary pull, reminding scholars of law, sexuality, and identity of the delights that lie in critically imagining queer legal futures. * Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality *For those of us in and around queer legal studies, Enticements is the collection that we’ve been waiting for. Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman's curated collection goes beyond the bounds of identitarian thinking that has corralled too much analysis on the regulation of sexuality. The essays in this volume beseech us to see that sex (the act, the designation) is everywhere, and so too is the juridical imaginary that governs thinking about bodies, innocence, intimacy, rights, and wrongs. * Paisley Currah, author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity *A field-defining collection that is defiant, insistent, caring, and considered. Enticements populates the nomenclature ‘queer legal studies’ with intellectual genealogies that include and exceed queer, critical and left-legal, feminist, Black, critical ethnic, postcolonial, and crip studies, which materializes the editorial promise to entice: luring fields not obviously, or previously, hailed by the ‘queer’ or the ‘legal’ into the unstable —reactive, unpredictable, tense, and charged — relation of the two. They invite readers to consider queer and legal as objects, ways of thinking, and modes of asking questions, and invite readers to dwell in the uncomfortable, sometimes incompatible, but nonetheless essential pairing of the two. * Emily A. Owens, author of Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans *
£84.15
New York University Press Enticements
Book SynopsisProvides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex,gender, reproduction, and family.In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of Queer Legal Studies. The essays investigate a wildly proliferating assortment of genders, sexualities, and intimacies, questioning how they have been regulated, criminalized, or privileged by law and other regulatory forces.Enticements expands and expounds on the discipline of queer legal studies. Contributors focus on a wide range of sex/gender regulatory regimes, interrogating the use and abuse of queer history for impact litigation and social change, colonial and postcolonial sex laws otherwise obscured by the modern LGBT paradigm of sexual identity, and the policing of trans and cis men. Moving beyond a focus on LGBT identities, contributors consider limits to reproductive freedom, the ChristianTrade ReviewEnticements arrives exactly when we need it, filling the scholarly vacuum to be found between queer and legal theory. As LGBTQ legal studies calcifies into a field, the essays in Enticements lure us away from that disciplinary pull, reminding scholars of law, sexuality, and identity of the delights that lie in critically imagining queer legal futures. * Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality *For those of us in and around queer legal studies, Enticements is the collection that we’ve been waiting for. Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman's curated collection goes beyond the bounds of identitarian thinking that has corralled too much analysis on the regulation of sexuality. The essays in this volume beseech us to see that sex (the act, the designation) is everywhere, and so too is the juridical imaginary that governs thinking about bodies, innocence, intimacy, rights, and wrongs. * Paisley Currah, author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity *A field-defining collection that is defiant, insistent, caring, and considered. Enticements populates the nomenclature ‘queer legal studies’ with intellectual genealogies that include and exceed queer, critical and left-legal, feminist, Black, critical ethnic, postcolonial, and crip studies, which materializes the editorial promise to entice: luring fields not obviously, or previously, hailed by the ‘queer’ or the ‘legal’ into the unstable —reactive, unpredictable, tense, and charged — relation of the two. They invite readers to consider queer and legal as objects, ways of thinking, and modes of asking questions, and invite readers to dwell in the uncomfortable, sometimes incompatible, but nonetheless essential pairing of the two. * Emily A. Owens, author of Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans *
£28.80
New York University Press Essential Legal English in Context
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£66.60
New York University Press Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Book SynopsisThe captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law's glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women's individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would neveTrade Review"Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is an inspirational story of individual successes and even more important, a historical analysis of the march toward improved gender equality in America." * Trial Magazine *"I cannot even begin to do justice to these stories, so I recommend it as reading for everyone. I have always considered Ruth Bader Ginsburg an inspiration, but now I know the names and stories of other trailblazers to admire: Ruth Abrams, Joanne Garvey, Constance Harvey, Herma Hill Kay, Shirley Hufstedler, Belva Lockwood, Janet Reno, Catherine Roraback, Norma Shapiro, Ada Shen-Jaffe, and so many more... Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers is not just the story of what women went through to attain their current place in the law, but an empowerment to keep the fight for equality going strong. This book is highly recommended for law school libraries." -- Law Library Journal"[A]n interesting look at the lives of women who joined the legal profession in the middle and later part of the last century...[I]t offers tales both fascinating and frustrating about barriers and burdens women suffered as they fought their way into the legal profession" -- The Champion"This remarkable volume collects the life and career stories of more than a hundred female lawyers, all part of the so-called 'second wave'of the movement, that is the period after women gained suffrage and other full citizenship rights. These are women who have written important scholarship, served as Deans of major institutions, risen to the highest ranks of law practice while also devising new forms of public service---their stories mark a true revolution in the profession. The production of the book itself is as remarkable as the content a vast collaborative effort of oral history taking and writing, now organized with an historians fine hand. It will be useful for years to all scholars of the legal profession as a model and an inspiration." -- Barbara Babcock,Crown Professor Emerita, Stanford Law School, author of Fish Raincoats, A Woman Lawyer's Life"Jill Norgren has written a compelling portrait of women on the front lines of the ongoing struggle for gender equality in the legal profession. Her book eloquently describes a central feature of the civil rights revolution that continues today, and reminds us not to take for granted the hard-won victories of those whose stories she tells." -- John Shattuck,author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response"The words of the women lawyers here tell an inspiring yet sobering story of the path women lawyers blazed in the 20th century. They all, even the most successful and influential, faced the roadblocks of gender discrimination as they made their way through law school and up the professional ladder, and as they confronted the enduring challenge of balancing their personal and professional lives. Their stories are both a window into the past and a beacon for the future, revealing just how far women lawyers have advanced as well as what lies ahead in the 21st century." -- Virginia G. Drachman,author of Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History
£66.60
New York University Press Fixing Law Schools
Book SynopsisAn urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal education The period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment results were terrible. Applications and enrollment cratered. Revenue dropped precipitously and several law schools closed. Almost all law schools shrank in terms of students, faculty, and staff. A handful of schools even closed. Despite these dismal results, law school tuition outran inflation and student indebtedness exploded, creating a truly toxic brew of higher costs for worse results. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the subsequent role of hero-lawyers in the resistance has made law school relevant again and applications have increased. However, despite the strong early returns, we still have no idea whether law schools are out of the woods or not. If the Trump Bump is temporary or does not result in steady enrollment increases, more schools will close. But if it does last, we face another danger. We tend to hope that crises bring Trade Review"A swashbuckling and informative critique of legal education… Indispensable for law school personnel and for students contemplating attending law school" * Choice *"Barton provides an excellent exploration, in a very readable style, of what American law schools have experienced since the 2007 recession. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in legal education." * Canadian Law Library Review *"Fixing Law Schools is essential reading for anyone who cares about legal education or is thinking of getting one. With enormous insight, wit, and eloquence, Ben Barton describes the challenges facing law schools and their students, and the profession’s inadequate responses. At a time when Americans increasingly recognize the importance of the rule of law and reforms to the justice system, this book provides a blueprint for where to start." -- Deborah Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession and E. W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University"Nobody knows more about the state of legal education than Ben Barton, and in this tour-de-force he addresses everything from the past, to the present, to whether enrolling in law school is a good investment for the future. Highly recommended!" -- Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
£23.74
University of Toronto Press Changing Legal Objectives
Book SynopsisThese essays were presented originally as lectures at the official ceremonies which marked the opening of the new Law Building in the University of Toronto. The book is intended to be a sharing of the ideas of the eminent lecturers with the community at large as well as a reminder of what was a happy and significant event in the life of one university. The theme running throughout the four essays is the phenomenon of law, like art, constantly racing to catch up with experience. Each author considers this phenomenon in the context of a problem on which he is a specialist. Cecil A. Wright opens the volume with a fresh and eloquent look at some basic questions in legal education: the place of the law school in the university, the lawyer's struggle with specifics under the shadow of general principles, the need for more understanding of the law in action, and the requirements of research in the social sciences. Principal J.A. Corry draws attention to the impress of social changes
£13.29
University of Toronto Press Sir Robert Falconer
Book SynopsisBiblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man.
£31.50
Cornell University Press A View from Two Benches
Book SynopsisWhether in football or in the law, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert Thomas has always had the best view from the bench.Bob Thomas got his start in football at the University of Notre Dame, kicking for the famed Fighting Irish in the early 1970s. Claimed off waivers by the Chicago Bears in 1975, Thomas helped to take the franchise from their darkest days to their brightest. Yet, on the cusp of the team''s greatest moment, he was struck with a shocking blow that challenged his fortitude.In this dramatic retelling of Bob Thomas''s fascinating life, renowned sports writer Doug Feldmann shows how neither football nor the law was part of Thomas''s dreams while growing up the son of Italian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s. Chasing excellence on both the gridiron and in the courtroom, however, would require resilience in ways he could not have imagined.As A View from Two Benches shows us, Bob Thomas reached the top of two separate and distincTable of Contents1. A Ride to Freedom 2. South Bend 3. Claimed on Waivers 4. The Medowlands 5. Maggie 6. Cut 7. Resilience 8. Comeback 9. Hitting New Heights 10. Faith Rewarded 11. Boot Camp—and Moving On 12. Justice Tempered with Civility 13. Integrity 14. Looking Ahead
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Cornell University Press Judgment and Mercy
Book SynopsisAs featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage.In 1951, world attention fixed on Kaufman''s courtroom as its ambitious young occupant stridently blamed the Rosenbergs for the Korean War. To many, the harsh sentences and their preening author left an enduring stain on American justice. But then the judge from Cold War central casting became something unexpected: one of the most illustrious progressive jurists of his day. Upending the simplistic portrait of Judge Kaufman as a McCarthyite villain, Siegel shows how his pathbreaking decisions desegregated a Northern school for the first time, liberalized the insanity defense, reformed Attica-era prisons, sparedTrade ReviewA major judicial biography that earns a place of distinction alongside other notable recent works such as Tomiko Brown-Nagin's Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, and Brad Snyder's Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, Siegel's Judgment and Mercy gives its flawed, complex, and perhaps too-long-reviled subject the captivating, multi-dimensional chronicle his life and work deserve. * New York Journal of Books *The trial and executions of the Rosenbergs remain controversial to this day, and they've spawned a vast historical and polemical literature. Judgment and Mercy is the latest contribution. It seeks to provide a complete portrait of Kaufman by distinguishing between the bad judge of the Rosenberg trial and the good jurist who championed a variety of causes dear to the hearts of progressives. These included broadening the insanity defense, defending civil liberties and the desegregation of neighborhood schools, prosecuting individuals accused of torture outside the United States, and encouraging prison reform. * Jewish Book Council *Attorney Martin J. Siegel's well-written biography of his former boss (he was Kaufman's final law clerk), Judgment and Mercy, is fascinating and scrupulously fair. * Washington Independent Review of Books *There is more to Kaufman than the Rosenberg case, as Martin J. Siegel shows in his excellent biography.... [Judgment and Mercy] succeeds masterfully in illuminating the life of the ambitious son of immigrants who became a federal judge at the age of thirty-nine, angled to try the espionage case of the 20th century, and then had to live with the consequences of his actions the rest of his long tenure on the bench. * Washington Monthly *A meticulous and unsentimental inquiry aimed at solving the mystery at the heart of Kaufman's career. Martin J. Siegel's new biography has the virtue of persuading a reader that the puzzle is worth investigating. * The New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Funeral 1. Isidore Mortem 2. Demon Boy Prosecutor 3. A Dream Come True 4. At Home on the Bench and Park Avenue 5. The Trial of the Century 6. Worse Than Murder 7. Immortality 8. Beaten by the Harvards 9. Apalachin and the Little Rock of the North 10. Elevation and Descent 11. The Forgotten Man 12. Hippieland 13. The Most Cherished Tenet 14. Annus Horribilis 15. Some Form of Justice 16. Keep the Beacon Burning Epilogue: "I Can't Believe I'm Going to Die"
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