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"Timely and excellent for use in our Poverty Law course."--Elizabeth C. Gray, Coppin State College
"A powerful and well-documented indictment of the elite bar's failure to live up to the trust that has been bestowed upon it by our system of justice."--The New York Times Book Review
"An enduring contribution to the sociology of American law....Those interested in the bar of the last century will be provoked by [Auerbach's] suggestive critiques of individuals and institutions."--Harvard Law Review
"A powerful and well-documented indictment of the elite bar's failure to live up to the trust that has been bestowed upon it by our system of justice."--The New York Times Book Review
"An enduring contribution to the sociology of American law....Those interested in the bar of the last century will be provoked by [Auerbach's] suggestive critiques of individuals and institutions."--Harvard Law Review
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Jerold S. Auerbach is at Wellesley College.
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This book should be required reading in college social science courses and should be discussed in every law school. The book goes into great detail about the history of the American Bar Association and the rise of the legal profession in America. It documents how the ABA gained control of the legal profession in the early part of the 20th Century and what it did to discourage blacks and women from earning a law license. The history of law in this country isn't a pretty picture and by tracing its roots the public would better understand why the legal profession is held in such low esteem by a large segment on the public.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the age of Jackson, told American lawyers what they most wanted to hear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
great state service, stratified profession, neighborhood law offices, legal aid movement, metropolitan bar, unequal justice, bar integration, law review editors, relevant lawyers, corporate counseling, unpopular defendants, urban industrial age, bar leaders, law school enrollments, elite lawyers, night law schools, negligence lawyers, organized bar, corporate bar, law teachers, legal services program, group legal services, state bar association, higher educational standards, corporate law firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, New York, American Bar Association, Wall Street, United States, Harvard Law School, Felix Frankfurter, Smith Act, Communist Party, Cleansing the Bar, Bill of Rights, Red Scare, Elihu Root, Jerome Frank, Soviet Union, Liberty League, Thurman Arnold, Harlan Stone, National Lawyers Guild, Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law Review, Charles Evans Hughes, Civil War, James Landis, Karl Llewellyn New!
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Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the age of Jackson, told American lawyers what they most wanted to hear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
great state service, stratified profession, neighborhood law offices, legal aid movement, metropolitan bar, unequal justice, bar integration, law review editors, relevant lawyers, corporate counseling, unpopular defendants, urban industrial age, bar leaders, law school enrollments, elite lawyers, night law schools, negligence lawyers, organized bar, corporate bar, law teachers, legal services program, group legal services, state bar association, higher educational standards, corporate law firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, New York, American Bar Association, Wall Street, United States, Harvard Law School, Felix Frankfurter, Smith Act, Communist Party, Cleansing the Bar, Bill of Rights, Red Scare, Elihu Root, Jerome Frank, Soviet Union, Liberty League, Thurman Arnold, Harlan Stone, National Lawyers Guild, Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law Review, Charles Evans Hughes, Civil War, James Landis, Karl Llewellyn New!
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- Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of NYC by George Martin on 4 pages
- Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor (Poverty U.S.a. Historical Record) by Reginald H. Smith on 4 pages
- Training for the Public Profession of the Law (Historical Writings in Law and Jurisprudence Second Series No. 2) by Alfred Z. Reed on 4 pages
- Lawyer's Lawyer: Life of John W. Davis (Galaxy Books) by William H. Harbaugh in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Law and the Modern Mind by Jerome Frank on page 138, page 152, and Index
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- Lawyers and Immigrants, 1870-1940: A Cultural History by Louis Anthes on 7 pages
- Rhode and Hazard's Professional Responsibility and Regulation (Concepts and Insights) (Concepts & Insights) by Jr.,Geoffrey Hazard on page 16, page 154, and page 195
- Academic Politics and the History of Criminal Justice Education: (Contributions in Criminology and Penology) by Frank Morn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional Empowerment by Terence C. Halliday in Front Matter, page 64, and page 125
- Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 (Yale Historical Publications Series) by Professor Regina G. Kunzel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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