This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology of informalism with the evolution of the American court system. The author connects dispute processing reform to the broader social and political context in which it developed, including the rise of judicial management in the Progressive period and the reconstruction of court unification in the 1970s. Harrington defines legal resources and their distribution in alternative dispute resolution policy before focusing on the institutionalization of...
This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology...
Are lawyers, by their very nature, agents of the state, of capital, of institutions of power? Or are there ways in which they can work constructively or transformatively for the disempowered, the working class, the underprivileged?
Lawyers in a Postmodern World explores how lawyers actively create the forms of power which they and others deploy. Through engaging case studies, the book examines how lawyers work within and for powerful institutions and provides suggestions--both general and practical--for ways in which the practice of law can be made to work with and for the...
Are lawyers, by their very nature, agents of the state, of capital, of institutions of power? Or are there ways in which they can work constructive...
This proven casebook continues to lay a foundation of knowledge for effective decision making and critical evaluation of ethics in the rule of law with case excerpts and sharp commentary. This text has been updated to include discussion of: *whether risk of future harm from government electronic surveillance is an injury sufficient to show standing *enforcement of sovereign immunity when a citizen attempts to sue a state agency *the importance of due process in the face of attempts to shut down Yucca mountain as a nuclear waste facility *the negotiated rulemaking process for Title IV...
This proven casebook continues to lay a foundation of knowledge for effective decision making and critical evaluation of ethics in the rule of law wit...
