Well-Being in the Legal Profession - Randall Kiser

Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Altruism, Justice, and Legal Reform

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-84765-8 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control.

Tracing studies of lawyers and judges over 40 years, this book demonstrates that decades of mental distress and social detachment in the legal profession have seriously damaged the legal system. Focusing largely on conditions in the United States but also drawing on studies from the UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia, the book depicts how this system is jeopardized by lawyers’ egocentrism, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. To improve the legal system and lawyers’ mental health—integrating law, psychology, sociology, and policy making—the book advocates a renewed commitment to justice, compassion, respect, and fairness through an ethic of regenerative altruism.

This book will appeal to legal academics concerned with the sociology of legal practice, as well as those involved in training lawyers; it will also be of interest to practicing lawyers, judges, and others engaged by issues of social justice and legal reform.

Randall Kiser is Principal Analyst at DecisionSet®. He is the author of six books on lawyer and law firm performance. Mr. Kiser has taught professional skills courses for law students, lawyers, mediators, and judges throughout the world and is recognized as a leading scholar of the U.S. legal profession.

1. Overview 2. Damaged Lawyers 3. Causes and Effects of Lawyers’ Mental Distress 4. Stressed Judges 5. Elements of Well-being 6. Altruism 7. Altruism in Practice 8. Accelerating Well-being, Altruism, and Reform 9. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-032-84765-4 / 1032847654
ISBN-13 978-1-032-84765-8 / 9781032847658
Zustand Neuware
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