Beschreibung:
A common complaint of the anti-lawyer movement is that under the influence of lawyers we have become a litigious society, in the process undermining traditional American values such as self-reliance and responsibility. In this volume a group of distinguished scholars in law and the social sciences explores these questions.
1 Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession: Introduction 2 American Lawyers, Legal Cultures, and Adversarial Legalism 3 Are We a Litigious People? 4 The Assault on Civil Justice: The Anti-Lawyer Dimension 5 The "Globalization" of Judicial Review 6 Americanization of Law: Reception or Convergence? 7 Courts and the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identity: Public Law Litigation in the Denver Schools