Legal culture in the United States : an introduction / / Kirk W. Junker

• Autore: Junker Kirk W.
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.1150973
• Soggetto topico: Law - United States - Methodology; Culture and law - United States; Justice, Administration of - Social aspects - United States; Adversary system (Law) - Social aspects - United States; Sociological jurisprudence - United States
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface: Seeing Law through the Reference Frames of Culture; 1 The Goal: Knowing the Soul and Spirit of U.S. Legal Culture through the Experience of the Common Law; 1.1 Framing Issues; 1.1.1 Spirit; 1.1.2 Soul; 1.1.3 The Spirit and the Soul of Advocacy; 1.2 Conclusions from Experience; Literature; 2 The Always and Already Comparative Nature of "Foreign" Law; Framing Issues; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Cognitive Status Quo; 2.2.1 Why Compare? A Brief History of Comparative Law; 2.2.2 Comparative Method ; 3.3 Comparisons within the Family: English Law and U.S. LawLiterature; 4 The Historical Reference Frame of "Kingless Commonwealths on the Other Shore of the Atlantic"1; Framing Issues; 4.1 The Problems of History; 4.2 Framing the Questions of History, U.S. History and U.S. Legal History; 4.2.1 The Static View; 4.2.2 The Circular or Cyclical View; 4.2.3 The Progressive or Enlightenment View; 4.2.4 The Spiral View; 4.2.5 The Cataclysmic View; 4.2.6 The Regressive View; 4.3 Proceeding from the Assumptions in the Various Views; 4.4 The Use and Abuse of History ; 4.5 Punished by Places and by Times: Establishing an Historical Narrative for U.S. Law4.5.1 The Birth of the Common Law; 4.5.2 Early Period: Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries; 4.5.3 Middle Period: 1340s-1640s; 4.5.4 The Modern Period: The Eighteenth Century Until Today; 4.6 U.S. History; 4.7 U.S. Legal History; 4.8 Conclusion; Literature; 5 The Social Reference Frame: Cultural Practices We Call "Law"; Framing Issues; 5.1 Introduction: Does Society Want Legal Specialists?; 5.1.1 The Social Approach to the Legal Actors; 5.1.2 Legal Practice and Training in the United States ; 5.1.3 U.S. Legal Education and Practice Immediately After Independence5.1.4 General Considerations for Admission to the Practice of Law; 5.1.5 Legal Education in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; 5.2 The United States Today: Entry into the Profession of Practicing Law; 5.3 Foreign Lawyer Practice in the United States (LL.M. and Foreign Legal Advisor); 5.4 Legal Science; 5.5 Lawyers and Law Students by the Numbers; 5.5.1 Gender; 5.5.2 Race; 5.6 A New Millennium for Common Law Education, A New Century for U.S. Legal Education; 5.7 Conclusion: Are the Horses in the Street Frightened Yet? ; Literature
• Titolo autorizzato: Legal culture in the United States
• ISBN: 1-317-24555-5; 1-315-62994-1; 1-317-24554-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798171203321
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• Serie: Zones of Religion