Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America / Edition 1

by Jerold S. Auerbach

Overview

Focuses on the elite nature of the profession, with its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempt to exclude participation by minorities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195021707
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/03/1977
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.99(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
I	The Best Men and the Best Opportunities	14
II	A Stratified Profession	40
III	Scientific Expertise: The Triumph of the New Professoriat	74
IV	Cleansing the Bar	102
V	Babbitry at the Bar	130
VI	A Great State Service	158
VII	The New Deal: A Lawyer's Deal	191
VIII	Cold War Conformity	231
IX	The Disintegration of Legal Authority	263
	Afterword	307
	Notes	309
	Bibliographical Essay	367
	Acknowledgments	381
	Index	383