Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America

by Jerold S. Auerbach

Book Overview

Focuses on the elite nature of the profession, with its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempt to exclude participation by minorities. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195021703
• Release Date: February 1977
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 1.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Mandatory Reading

This book should be required reading in college social science courses and should be discussed in every law school. The book goes into great detail about the history of the American Bar Association and the rise of the legal profession in America. It documents how the ABA gained control of the legal profession in the early part of the 20th Century and what it did to discourage blacks and women from earning a law license. The history of law in this country isn't a pretty picture and by tracing its roots the public would better understand why the legal profession is held in such low esteem by a large segment on the public.