The lawyer-judge bias in the American legal system /
"Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtl...
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| 505 | 0 | |a An ambient bias -- The theory -- Constitutional criminal procedure -- Civil constitutional law -- A short history of lawyer regulation -- Current lawyer regulation -- Torts -- Evidence and civil procedure -- The business of law -- Enron's sole survivors -- Complexity and the lawyer-judge bias -- Rays of hope, ramifications, and possible solutions. | |
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