TY  - BOOK
AU  - Junker,Kirk
TI  - Legal Culture in the United States: an Introduction
SN  - 9781317245544
AV  - KF380.J85 2016 
U1  - 349.73 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Culture and law - United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- 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 Functionality -- 2.2.4 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-- 3.2 A Note on Case Decisions -- 3.3 Comparisons within the Family: English Law and U.S. Law -- Literature -- 4 The Historical Reference Frame of "Kingless Commonwealths on the Other Shore of the Atlantic" -- Framing Issues -- 4.1 The Problems of History -- 4.2 Framing the Questions of History,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. Law -- 4.5.1 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 Independence -- 5.1.4 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? -- Literature -- 6 The Language Reference Frame -- Framing Issues -- 6.1 Introduction and Outline -- 6.2 Law and Literature -- 6.3 Linguistics: Making Meaning through Language -- 6.4 Rhetoric -- 6.5 Philosophy of Language -- 6.6 Conclusions -- Literature -- 7 The Philosophy Reference Frame -- Framing Issues -- 7.1 Philosophy, Legal Philosophy and American Legal Philosophy -- 7.2 Making Meaning through Definition -- 7.2.1 Making Meaning through Etymology -- 7.2.2 Philosophical Method -- 7.2.3 "Schools" of Philosophy in the Study and Practice of Law -- 7.3 What Are the Attributes of "American" Philosophy? -- 7.3.1 Realism, Pragmatism and Positivism; 7.3.2 Critical Legal Studies -- 7.3.3 Rationalism v. Empiricism in U.S. Adversarial Trial Practice -- 7.4 Conclusions: Philosophy for the Future -- Literature -- 8 The Disciplinary Reference Frame -- Framing Issues -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Method of the Legal Discipline: More Than Textual Exegesis? -- 8.3 The Substance of the Legal Discipline: Attitude? -- 8.4 Putting Notions of Text and Science Together -- 8.5 Putting Notions of Practice and Art Together -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Literature -- 9 The Mechanistic Reference Frame -- Framing Issues -- 9.1 Mechanics -- 9.2 Discovery -- 9.3 Lay Juries -- 9.4 The Trial -- 9.5 The Doctrine of Stare Decisis -- 9.6 Federalism -- 9.6.1 Federalism in the Making of Law -- 9.6.2 Federalism and the Practice of Law -- 9.6.3 What Law Applies to a Conflict-Federal or State? -- 9.6.4 Federalism and State Relations to Other States -- 9.7 Conclusions -- Literature -- Index
N2  - For law students and lawyers to successfully understand and practice law in the U.S., an understanding of the wider context and culture which informs the law is essential. With a deeper understanding of this cultural context, international students will be empowered to more quickly adapt to their studies; more comprehensively understand the role of the attorney in the U.S. system; draw comparisons with their own domestic legal system; and ultimately become more successful in their legal careers both in the U.S. and abroad
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