The lawyer-judge bias in the American legal system / Benjamin H. Barton.

Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtle. Fun...

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Main Author: Barton, Benjamin H., 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791871
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