Lost Lawyer

Author: [USA] Anthony Kronman
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: In his 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 dedicated spirit to the law based on public virtue. Lost Lawyer is a critical examination of a significant period in the American legal profession and an immortal reiteration of the aforementioned ideal. Lost Lawyer is an important work in the history of American law. However, beyond its historical significance, 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.