Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Men ever praise the olden time, and find fault with the present, though often without reason.They are such partisans of the past that they extol not only the times which they know only by the accounts left of them by historians, but, having grown old, they also laud all they remember to have seen in their youth.Their opinion is generally erroneous in that respect .... Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)1Lawyers, of the generation that I know, are apt to think their lot cast in evil days.How often we hear that the profession is commercialized; that the lawyer of to day does not enjoy the position and influence that belonged to the lawyer of seventyfive or a hundred years ago; that, instead of being an all-around lawyer, one must now be a specialist; that the rules of law are less definite, and the decisions of the courts less certain that they used to be; and that the last thing a lawyer need know, in order to success [sic] under present-day conditions, is the law.Lloyd W. Bowers (1904)2 No one watching the contemporary furor over the litigation explosion and lawsuits devouring America can fail to be impressed by the power of folklore to overwhelm workaday organized social * 0 1996
Source: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Author: Marc Galanter
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2887079958