Stefancic / Delgado How Lawyers Lose Their Way

A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8686-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

The professional discontent of lawyers in contemporary society is introduced via an account of the long friendship of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish; then the authors suggest how critical legal theory might advance both legal thinking and the impoveris

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stefancic, Jean

Delgado, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Berufs- und Gebührenrecht freie Berufe Rechtsanwälte und Notare

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Why Are Lawyers So Unhappy? xi

Part I: Panthers and Pinstripes 3

1. The Caged Panther: Ezra Pound 5

2. Pinstripes: Archibald MacLeish 12

Part II: Discontents 31

3. Formalism: A New/Old Disease 33

4. Lawyers and Their Discontents 47

5. Lawyers’ Lives 62

6. Other Professions: Medicine 72

7. High-Paid Misery 77

Notes 87

Index 135

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Stefancic is Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where both are Derrick Bell Fellows. Stefancic and Richard Delgado have written and edited numerous books together, including Understanding Words that Wound, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, and No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda.Richard Delgado is Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where both are Derrick Bell Fellows. Among Delgado’s books are When Equality Ends: Stories about Race and Resistance and The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.