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