Author: Arthur Harold EngelbachPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar
Author: Arthur Harold EngelbachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Bench and Bar of Georgia
Author: Stephen Frank MillerPublisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Bench and Bar of Georgia: Memoirs and Sketches
Author: Stephen Franks MillerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Westminster Hall: Or Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench, and Woolsack..
Author: Lowering the Bar
Author: Marc GalanterPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299213536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Judges, Judging and Humour
Author: Jessica Milner DavisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319767380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time. It contributes to cultural studies and social science/socio-legal studies of both humour and the role of emotions in the judiciary and in judging. It explores the surprisingly varied intersections between humour and the judiciary in several legal systems: judges as the target of humour; legal decisions regulating humour; the use of humour to manage aspects of judicial work and courtroom procedure; and judicial/legal figures and customs featuring in comic and satiric entertainment through the ages. Delving into the multi-layered connections between the seriousness of the work of the judiciary on the one hand, and the lightness of humour on the other hand, this fascinating collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the legal system, the criminal justice system, humour studies, and cultural studies.
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