Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients - Austin Sarat, William L. F. Felstiner

Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients

Power and Meaning in the Legal Process
Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
1998
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511799-8 (ISBN)
84,80 inkl. MwSt
Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences at which the authors were observers, this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between the two as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. It also examines the nature of the marriage and why marriages fail, the nature of the legal process and the best way to resolve divorce.
Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between lawyers and clients as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. As observers, Felstiner and Sarat were present when lawyers and clients confronted the full range of issues that occur during a divorce. This book examines the relationship between lawyer and client, the nature of the marriage and why marriages fail, the nature of the legal process, and the best way to resolve divorce.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has written and edited many books and articles on the theory and practice of law, including Cause Lawyering (OUP, 1997) and Race, Law, and Culture (OUP, 1997). William L. F. Felstiner is Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He is General Editor of the Onati International Series in Law and Society.

1. Introduction:
2. Reconstructing the Past, Imagining the Future: Defining the Domain of Relevance in Lawyer-Client Interaction:
3. Negotiating "Realism" and Responsibility in Lawyer-Client Interactions:
4. Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office:
5. From Adversariness to Resolution: Lawyers, Clients, and the World of Deals:
6. Conclusion:
Notes
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.7.1998
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 232 mm
Gewicht 294 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-511799-9 / 0195117999
ISBN-13 978-0-19-511799-8 / 9780195117998
Zustand Neuware
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