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Kronman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1968, Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophy) from Yale University in 1972, and Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1975.
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The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
( Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting...)
Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the law. For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law. A variety of factors have contributed to the declining prestige of prudence and public-spiritedness within the legal profession. Partly, Kronman asserts, it is the result of the triumph, in legal thought, of a counterideal that denigrates the importance of wisdom and character as professional virtues. Partly, it is due to an array of institutional forces, including the explosive growth of the country's leading law firms and the bureaucratization of our courts. The Lost Lawyer examines each of these developments and illuminates their common tendency to compromise the values from which the ideal of the lawyer-statesman draws strength. It is the most important critique of the American legal profession in some time, and an an enduring restatement of its ideals.
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The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession Paperback April 14, 1995
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The Lost Lawyer Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Anthony Townsend Kronman
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He was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1994 to 2004. He was an editor of Yale Law Journal when he studied at Yale Law School. He taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1975 to 1976, and the University of Chicago Law School from 1976 to 1978, before joining the Yale faculty.
He recently published a book, Education"s End, which is a summary of the disarray of the United States. higher education system especially in regard to the question of the meaning of life.
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The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
( Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting...)
- The Lost Lawyer. Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
- The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession Paperback April 14, 1995
- The Lost Lawyer Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
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