Lost Lawyer: The Decline of the Legal Profession Ideal

Author: (USA) Anthony Kronman, Zhou Zhanchao, Shi Xinzhong
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: In an exciting analysis, the renowned scholar and educator Anthony Kronman describes the spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession. He attributes this crisis to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-politician: an ideal that holds good judgment to be superior to technical competence and encourages a commitment to the law based on a sense of public duty. The Lost Lawyer is a crucial critique of a certain period in the American legal profession and an immortal restatement of the aforementioned ideal. The Lost Lawyer is a significant work in the history of American law. However, beyond its historical importance, it holds unique psychological, ethical, and philosophical value for the legal profession. Kronman's research in ethics, social judgment, and psychological capacity is also highly influential.
In an exciting analysis, the renowned scholar and educator Anthony Kronman describes the spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession. He attributes this crisis to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-politician: an ideal that holds good judgment to be superior to technical competence and encourages a commitment to the law based on a sense of public duty. The Lost Lawyer is a crucial critique of a certain period in the American legal profession and an immortal restatement of the aforementioned ideal. The Lost Lawyer is a significant work in the history of American law. However, beyond its historical importance, it holds unique psychological, ethical, and philosophical value for the legal profession. Kronman's research in ethics, social judgment, and psychological capacity is also highly influential.