The American Legal Profession in Crisis Resistance and Responses to Change
The American Legal Profession in Crisis Resistance and Responses to Change
- ISBN 13:
9780199379750
- ISBN 10:
0199379750
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 05/28/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The legal profession has been an unwilling, capitulating entity to any transformation wrought by the overwhelming tide of change. Only when the shifts in society, culture, technology, economics, and globalization could no longer be denied did the legal profession make any proactive changes that would preserve status quo. This book demonstrates how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, waves of immigration, the explosion of litigation, and the current economic crisis that blends with dramatic changes in technology, communications, and globalization.
Ultimately, Moliterno urges the profession to look outward and forward to find in society and culture the causes and connections with these periodic crises. Doing so would allow the profession to grow with the society, solve problems with, rather than against, the flow of society, and be more attuned to the very society the profession claims to serve.
This paperback version includes a commentary on the prevailing crisis in legal education.