How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822335638 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stefancic and Delgado write with the insight and creativity that they will certainly inspire in lawyers and others who choose careers hoping both to live well and to do some good in this world.”—Paul Butler, George Washington University Law School. The book is an exciting combination of a self-help manual and cutting-edge scholarship. The authors make profound connections between law and literature, scholarship and practice, and the personal and the political. “Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado offer an innovative approach to integrating a great career in the law with an examined, moral life
Reading the forty-year correspondence between MacLeish and Pound, Stefancic and Delgado draw lessons about the difficulties of attorneys trapped in worlds that give them power, prestige, and affluence but not personal satisfaction, much less creative fulfillment. They show how legal education and practice have been rendered arid and dull by formalism, a way of thinking that values precedent and doctrine above all, exalting consistency over ambiguity, rationality over emotion, and rules over social context and narrative.Stefancic and Delgado dramatize the plight of modern lawyers by exploring the unlikely friendship between Archibald MacLeish, who gave up a successful but unsatisfying law career to pursue his literary yearnings, and Ezra Pound. In this penetrating book, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado use historical investigation and critical analysis to diagnose the cause
W. K. Sievers said Formalism and the Law. It is interesting that there is only one review posted for this book (as of March "Formalism and the Law" according to W. K. Sievers. It is interesting that there is only one review posted for this book (as of March 2008). You may surmise that busy lawyers just don't have the time for reading this kind of book. You would be right. That is a shame. The legal profession is jam packed with disenchanted/lost souls who made a pact with the devil early in their careers. The trade? A life perversely ruled by "formalism" in exch. 008). You may surmise that busy lawyers just don't have the time for reading this kind of book. You would be right. That is a shame. The legal profession is jam packed with disenchanted/lost souls who made a pact with the devil early in their careers. The trade? A life perversely ruled by "formalism" in exch