This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while st...(展开全部)

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stim...(展开全部)

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stim...(展开全部)

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while st...(展开全部)

Updated and expanded, this invaluable reference book was originally written as an aid for those disadvantaged by the deteriorating standing of Latin in our education system and by its use as legal terminology. Professional and comprehensive, yet lighthearted, it is immensely readable and has assumed a readership far beyond the lawyers for whom it was primarily designed to assis...(展开全部)

Updated and expanded, this invaluable reference book was originally written as an aid for those disadvantaged by the deteriorating standing of Latin in our education system and by its use as legal terminology. Professional and comprehensive, yet lighthearted, it is immensely readable and has assumed a readership far beyond the lawyers for whom it was primarily designed to assis...(展开全部)

玛丽•安•格伦顿，1938年10月生于马萨诸塞州的皮茨菲尓德，分别于1959年、1961年、1963年取得芝加哥大学文学学士、法学学士（J.D.）和比较法硕士学位。1986年开始任哈佛大学法学教授，1993年起任勒尼德.汉德法学讲席教授（Learned Hand Professor of Law）。研究兴趣主要集中于欧美比较宪法、法理学和国际人权。1998年曾被美国“国家法学”杂志评为“全美最具影响力的50位女性法律人士之一”。2005年获得美国国家艺术奖章。 代表作《比较法律传统》和《权力话语——穷途末路的政治言辞》已经被翻译为中文，本书是她的又一部力作。