Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Junker, Kirk W.
Titre(s) : Legal culture in the United States [Texte électronique] / Kirk W. Junker
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (269 pages)
Collection : Zones of Religion
Note(s) : Includes index.. - Literature.
Sujet(s) : Système accusatoire et système inquisitoire -- Société -- États-Unis
Sociologie juridique -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781317245544
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45085909m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45085909
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword;
Preface: Seeing Law through the Reference Frames of Culture; 1 The Goal: Knowing the
Soul and Spirit of U.S. Legal Culture through the Experience of the Common Law; 1.1
Framing Issues; 1.1.1 Spirit; 1.1.2 Soul; 1.1.3 The Spirit and the Soul of Advocacy;
1.2 Conclusions from Experience; Literature; 2 The Always and Already Comparative
Nature of "Foreign" Law; Framing Issues; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Cognitive Status Quo;
2.2.1 Why Compare? A Brief History of Comparative Law; 2.2.2 Comparative Method.
2.2.3 Functionality2.2.4 How to Compare; 2.2.5 What Comparative Law Is Not; 2.2.6
Further Critiques That Generate New Schools of Comparativism; 2.3 Conclusions-What
Is Learned or Gained from Comparative Science?; Literature; 3 Comparative Law Applied:
The Subtle Differences Between Civil Law and Common Law in Study and Practice; Framing
Issues; 3.1 Why Compare Common Law with Civil Law?; 3.1.1 What Should One Compare?
The Range from Hand to Math; 3.1.2 Comparing Institutions; 3.1.3 Comparing Processes;
3.1.4 Comparing Sources ... from the Bottom up; 3.2 A Note on Case Decisions.
3.3 Comparisons within the Family: English Law and U.S. LawLiterature; 4 The Historical
Reference Frame of "Kingless Commonwealths on the Other Shore of the Atlantic"1; Framing
Issues; 4.1 The Problems of History; 4.2 Framing the Questions of History, U.S. History
and U.S. Legal History; 4.2.1 The Static View; 4.2.2 The Circular or Cyclical View;
4.2.3 The Progressive or Enlightenment View; 4.2.4 The Spiral View; 4.2.5 The Cataclysmic
View; 4.2.6 The Regressive View; 4.3 Proceeding from the Assumptions in the Various
Views; 4.4 The Use and Abuse of History.
4.5 Punished by Places and by Times: Establishing an Historical Narrative for U.S.
Law4.5.1 The Birth of the Common Law; 4.5.2 Early Period: Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries;
4.5.3 Middle Period: 1340s-1640s; 4.5.4 The Modern Period: The Eighteenth Century
Until Today; 4.6 U.S. History; 4.7 U.S. Legal History; 4.8 Conclusion; Literature;
5 The Social Reference Frame: Cultural Practices We Call "Law"; Framing Issues; 5.1
Introduction: Does Society Want Legal Specialists?; 5.1.1 The Social Approach to the
Legal Actors; 5.1.2 Legal Practice and Training in the United States.
5.1.3 U.S. Legal Education and Practice Immediately After Independence5.1.4 General
Considerations for Admission to the Practice of Law; 5.1.5 Legal Education in the
Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; 5.2 The United States Today: Entry into the
Profession of Practicing Law; 5.3 Foreign Lawyer Practice in the United States (LL.
M. and Foreign Legal Advisor); 5.4 Legal Science; 5.5 Lawyers and Law Students by
the Numbers; 5.5.1 Gender; 5.5.2 Race; 5.6 A New Millennium for Common Law Education,
A New Century for U.S. Legal Education; 5.7 Conclusion: Are the Horses in the Street
Frightened Yet?
