Lost Lawyer Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession

Name: Lost Lawyer Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
Price: 4.1 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780674539273

ISBN-10: 0674539273

ISBN-13: 9780674539273

Edition: 1993

Authors: Anthony T. Kronman

List price: $44.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $54.71

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.10

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the law. For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law. A variety of…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Tony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Since stepping down as Dean of the Law School in 2004, he has been teaching in the Directed Studies Program at Yale and devoting himself to the humanities. He lives in New Haven.



Introduction



Ideas



An Embarrassed Virtue



Practical Wisdom and Political Fraternity



The Good Lawyer



Realities



Law Schools



Law Firms



Courts



Honesty and Hope


Notes


Index