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Lawyers, Courts, And The Rise Of The Regulatory State, R. C. B. Risk
Lawyers, Courts, And The Rise Of The Regulatory State, R. C. B. Risk
Dalhousie Law Journal
In 1883, when Dalhousie Law School was created, lawyers in England, the United States, and Canada stood at the edge of a watershed. Massive changes in the law began during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - changes in doctrine, institutions, practice, and ways of thinking. I cannot imagine how I might describe these changes in one short paper, even if I understood them all. Instead, I have chosen to talk about one large strand, regulation, because it is an important feature of law in the twentieth century and because it offers an opportunity to consider some distinctive characteristics …
Final Judgment: My Life As A Soviet Defense Attorney, Michigan Law Review
Final Judgment: My Life As A Soviet Defense Attorney, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney by Dina Kaminskaya
Lawyers, Politics, And The "Lawyers' Interest": An Historical Inquiry, James W. Gordon
Lawyers, Politics, And The "Lawyers' Interest": An Historical Inquiry, James W. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
The assumption that the occupational identification of "lawyer" is the salient feature in evaluating political motivation is interesting, if questionable, according to the Author. Does occupational identity overwhelm other identities? Are politically active lawyers really a homogeneous group? Are they less affected by competing identities associated with wealth, geography, familial and constituency concerns, political ideology, party considerations, or any of the myriad other sources of public and private motivation of behavior? Surely the hypothesis that politically active lawyers behave differently from nonlawyers is worth investigating. This Article offers some preliminary responses to these questions posed, which are grounded in empirical …
Book Review, Mark J. Loewenstein