James E. Moliterno

The American Legal Profession in Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

Resistance and Responses to Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Central to the identity of the American legal profession are its systems of self-regulation. Throughout history, the legal profession has tried to hold tight to its traditional values and structure during times of self-identified crisis. The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change analyzes the efforts of the legal profession to protect and maintain the status quo even as the world around it changed. Author James E. Moliterno, consistently argues that the profession has resisted societal change and sought to ban or discourage new models of legal representation created by such change. He demonstrates how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, immigration waves, the litigation explosion, the civility crisis, and the current economic crisis. Ultimately, he urges the profession to look outward and forward to find in society and culture the causes and connections with these periodic crises, and in doing so, to grow with the society it claims to serve. This paperback version includes a commentary on the prevailing crisis in legal education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199399147
• Artikelnr.: 40501624

Autorenporträt

James E. Moliterno is the Vincent Bradford Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is one of the nation's leading educators in professional responsibility and experiential legal education. Since 2009, he has held a leadership role in Washington & Lee's ground-breaking third year curriculum reform, and in 1988, he designed William & Mary Law School's award-winning ethics, skills, and professionalism program. He received the 2012 Rebuilding Justice Award from the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System in recognition of his career-long legal education reform efforts. Professor Moliterno is a member of the American Law Institute, and he has held committee leadership roles in both AALS and the ABA. He has also engaged in substantial international legal ethics and legal education reform work, designing new lawyer and judge ethics courses, training law professors and judges, and revising the lawyer ethics code in over a dozen countries. Professor Moliterno is widely published in the field of legal education and professional responsibility, with twelve books and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: What Crisis? Who Speaks for the Profession?
Chapter 2: The Immigrant Wave
Chapter 3: Communist Infiltration
Chapter 4: Civil Rights, A New Kind of Lawyering
Chapter 5: Watergate, The Deepest Embarrassment
Chapter 6: The Litigation Boom
Chapter 7: The Civility Crisis
Chapter 8: The Fear of Sharing Power, MDPs and ABS
Chapter 9: Technology, Globalization and the Economy
Chapter 10: Changing the Change Game