Outside, Inside: Jewish Justices in the Homeless Society

Autor: Marc Galanter
Rok vydání: 1989
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Zdroj: Law & Social Inquiry. 14:507
ISSN: 1545-696X
0897-6546
DOI: 10.1086/492267
Popis: MARC GALANTER is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. M.A. 1954, J.D. 1956, University of Chicago. The author is indebted to Jerold Auerbach, Eve Galanter, Stewart Macaulay, Deborah Dash Moore, Dan Pekarsky, and Robert Post for the benefit of their reactions to an earlier draft. 1. No one knows just how many Jewish lawyers there are, but a sense of the Jewish presence in American law can be gathered from the following. Jews made up about 12% of all law students and 22% of law professors in 1975; in the "top twenty law schools" they were about 30% of both students and faculty. These figures are derived from surveys conducted by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, reported in Carl A. Auerbach, "Legal Education and Some of Its Discontents," 34 J. Legal Educ., 43, 50 (1984). Explanations of this abundant participation in legal life, ranging from Jewish legalism and textualism to more diffuse and general traits of Jewish life, have foundered on the difficulty of establishing such connections. For some recent attempts, see M. Price, "Text and Intellect," 33 Buffalo L. Rev. 562 (1984); J. Morris, "The American Jewish Judge: An Appraisal on the Occasion of the Bicentennial," 35 Jewish Soc. Stud. 195 (1976); D. Artz, "The People's Lawyers: The Predominance of Jews in Public Interest Law," 35(1) Judaism 47 (Winter 1986). 2. On participation in the legal side of the New Deal, see Jerold S. Auerbach, Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976) ("Auerbach, Unequal Justice"); on community defense agencies, see Alexander Pekelis, "Full Equality in a Free Society: A Program for Jewish Action," in Law and Social Action (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1950); Marshall Breger, "The Legal Tradition of Jewish Defense Agencies" (unpublished paper); on public interest law, see Artz, 35 Judaism (cited in note 1).
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