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Embracing Descent: The Bankruptcy Of A Business Paradigm For Conceptualizing And Regulating The Legal Profession, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jan 1999

Embracing Descent: The Bankruptcy Of A Business Paradigm For Conceptualizing And Regulating The Legal Profession, Jeffrey W. Stempel

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Lawyers are said to travel in packs, or at least pairs, and in the popular parlance are often compared to hoards of locusts, herds of cattle, or unruly mobs. However, at least for purposes of assessing concerns with professionalism currently surrounding the bar and the public, whether attorneys are more or less social than other human animals does not matter. My point is simply that lawyers are social beings; like other human beings in social and occupational groups, lawyers behave largely in accordance with group norms, in much the same way peer pressure led Julian English toward juvenile delinquency in …


Judging The Jury, Eric M. Acker May 1987

Judging The Jury, Eric M. Acker

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judging the Jury by Valerie P. Hans and Neil Vidmar


Judicial Reasoning And Social Change, David Dittfurth Jan 1975

Judicial Reasoning And Social Change, David Dittfurth

Indiana Law Journal

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An Evaluation Of Gault By A Sociologist, Albert K. Cohen Apr 1968

An Evaluation Of Gault By A Sociologist, Albert K. Cohen

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium on Juvenile Problems: In re Gault