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Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
Ronen Shamir
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Description for Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAT; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
With the New Deal came a dramatic expansion of the American regulatory state. Threatening to undermine many of the traditional roles of the legal system and its actors by establishing a system of administrative law, the new emphasis on federal legislation as a form of social and economic planning ushered in an era of "legal uncertainty." In this study Ronen Shamir explores how elite corporate lawyers and the American Bar Association clashed with academic legal realists over the constitutionality of the New Deal’s legislative program.
Applying the insights of Weber and Bourdieu to the sociology of the legal profession, Shamir ... Read more
With the New Deal came a dramatic expansion of the American regulatory state. Threatening to undermine many of the traditional roles of the legal system and its actors by establishing a system of administrative law, the new emphasis on federal legislation as a form of social and economic planning ushered in an era of "legal uncertainty." In this study Ronen Shamir explores how elite corporate lawyers and the American Bar Association clashed with academic legal realists over the constitutionality of the New Deal’s legislative program.
Applying the insights of Weber and Bourdieu to the sociology of the legal profession, Shamir ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822316626
SKU
V9780822316626
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About Ronen Shamir
Ronen Shamir is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tel Aviv University.
Reviews for Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
"Managing Legal Uncertainty offers an original account of lawyers in the New Deal. It challenges conventional wisdom in a provocative and persuasive fashion."—Robert Jerome Glennon, University of Arizona College of Law "Richly detailed, Managing Legal Uncertainty examines the activities of the organized bar during the period of the New Deal in much greater depth than previous accounts. It will quickly ... Read more