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A Nation Under Lawyers

How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society

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$46.00 • £40.95 • €41.95

ISBN 9780674601383

Publication Date: 03/01/1996

Short

352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

8 halftones

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Mary Ann Glendon’s A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world, in which even lawyers themselves can lose their bearings. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance. Dramatizing issues and events through stories of lawyers and laypersons caught up in the currents of change, she provides a frank assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture.

Awards & Accolades

  • Mary Ann Glendon Is a 2005 National Humanities Medal Winner

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