Legal Culture and the Legal Profession

Edited by
Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)
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Table of Contents

Legal Cultures and the Legal Profession: Introduction
Lawrence M Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber

American Lawyers, Legal Cultures, and Adversarial Legalism
Robert A. Kagan

Are We a Litigious People?
Lawrence M Friedman

The Assault on Civil Justice: The Anti-Lawyer Dimension
Marc Galanter

The "Globalization" of Judicial Review
Martin Shapiro

Americanization of Law: Reception or Convergence?
Wolfgang Wiegand

Courts and the Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identity: Public Law Litigation in the Denver Schools
Rachel F. Moran