The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System
Benjamin H. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Barton
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Virtually all American judges are former lawyers, a shared background that results in the lawyer-judge bias. 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107616141
- ISBN-10
- 110761614X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-01-02
- Pages
- 312
- Dimensions
- 229x152x17
- Weight
- 42