Lawyers and Legal Consciousness
Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5778589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Austin Sarat (American Bar Foundation), William L F Felstiner (Amherst College) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1663-1663 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Yale Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-0094 • E-ISSN: 1939-8611 |
| Publisher | The Yale Law Journal Company (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/796611 |
| OpenAlex | W69759856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 2 |
Two very different pictures of mass legal consciousness 1 have wide currency in contemporary legal scholarship.The first is one of public cynicism, of instrumentalism without conviction, of citizens both litigious and, at the same time, alienated from the legal system. 2 This image of mass legal consciousness informs many accounts of the so-called "litigation explosion" ' and suggests that legal institutions are no longer accorded sufficient legitimacy and respect.It is deployed to identify and respond to the alleged erosion of public confidence in legal institutions.The second view of mass legal consciousness presents a picture of a loyal and trusting public, deeply attached to law and legal institutions, taken in by law's manners, myths, and legitimating narratives.This portrait is rooted in the Tocquevillian assertion that Americans understand their social relationships and their social problems through the lenses of law: To resolve "their daily controversies," they "borrow . . . the ideas and even the language peculiar to judicial proceedings." 4Tocqueville believed that the pervasiveness of the language of law in the activities of everyday life reflected and reinforced widespread allegiance to legal insti
Legal consciousness · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
La doctrina del acto propio y su aplicabilidad en las disputas de contrato realidad. Una mirada de una institución del derecho privado en el derecho laboral
Legitymizacja roli sędziowskiej
Donald Black Discovers Legal Realism
From Subjects to Citizens
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
The UK Citizens Advice service and the plurality of actors and practices that shape “legal consciousness”
The Trial Process becomes very Alien”
The role of legal intermediaries in the dispute pyramid
The Experience of a Legal Career
The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest
Law, Nation and Race
Institutional Vulnerablity and Opportunity
Donald Black Discovers Legal Realism
Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tier System of Access to Justice in the United States
The Process Is the Punishment
Divorce Attorneys and 40 Clients in Two Not So Big but Not So Small Cities in Massachusetts and California
The Cultural Power of Law and the Cultural Enactment of Legality
Divorce Attorneys and 40 Clients in Two Not So Big but Not So Small Cities in Massachusetts and California
Making law, making place
Role of voice in the legal process
Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
A critical reappraisal of divorce mediation research and policy
Socializing Distrust of the Justice System through the Family in Juvenile Delinquency Court
The sociology of the sociology of law
The Elusive Shadow of the Law
Authority, Anxiety, and Procedural Justice
Ambivalent Legal Mobilization
Imagining the Law of the Father
Investigating Legal Consciousness through the Technical Work of Elite Lawyers
Mobilizing the Law in China
Legal Consciousness of the Leftover Woman
The Mechanisms of White Space(s)
Sings of quality
Legal Language
Conservatism, Institutionalism, and the Social Control of Intergroup Conflict
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |