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The lawyer's myth : reviving ideals in the legal profession /
Lawyers today are in a moral crisis. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power. In The Lawyer's Myth, Walter Bennett goes beyond the caricat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Professional Wound; 2. The Dark Landscape of the Profession: The Legal Academy and the Loss of Ideals; 3. The Profession and the Loss of Professional Mythology; 4. The Mythological Function of the Lost Ideals; 5. The Negative Archetype in Professional Mythology; 6. Professional Mythology and the Loss of Community; 7. Why the Profession Should Be Saved; 8. A Preface to New Ideals: Coming to Terms with the Historical Masculinity of the Profession; 9. Realizing the Feminine in Lawyers' Work: Conceiving a New Ideal of Power.