Jean Stefancic, Richard Delgado

How Lawyers Lose Their Way

A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds

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Produktbeschreibung

The professional discontent of lawyers in contemporary society is introduced via an account of the long friendship of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish; then the authors suggest how critical legal theory might advance both legal thinking and the impoveris

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334545
• ISBN-10: 0822334542
• Artikelnr.: 21191850

Autorenporträt

Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Why Are Lawyers So Unhappy? xi
Part I: Panthers and Pinstripes 3
1. The Caged Panther: Ezra Pound 5
2. Pinstripes: Archibald MacLeish 12
Part II: Discontents 31
3. Formalism: A New/Old Disease 33
4. Lawyers and Their Discontents 47
5. Lawyers’ Lives 62
6. Other Professions: Medicine 72
7. High-Paid Misery 77
Notes 87
Index 135