Background
Galanter, Marc Selig was born on February 18, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob and Mary (Linett) Galanter.
( Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one ...)
Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive—the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. "Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms."—Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal
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(Can a democratic society pursue a policy of compensatory ...)
Can a democratic society pursue a policy of compensatory discrimination without forsaking equality or sliding into a system of group quotas? For over thirty years, India has been engaged in a massive effort to integrate "untouchables" and other oppressed peoples into the mainstream of Indian life. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Indian experience with policies of systematic preferential treatment. Galanter includes a discussion of the relation of the courts to public policy in his analysis of the choices and tensions in the Indian policies of compensatory preference.
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(Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin,...)
Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin, Galanter here contends that independent India has accepted this mid-twentieth century legal system intellectually and institutionally. His thirteen articles, covering a wide range of issues in Indian society, explore the operation of modern Indian law and explicate the ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditions to which it is alien.
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( What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? ...)
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.
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Galanter, Marc Selig was born on February 18, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jacob and Mary (Linett) Galanter.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1950; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1954; Juris Doctor, University of Chicago, 1956.
Bigelow fellow, University of Chicago, 1956-1957;
assistant professor, assistant director international legal studies, Stanford (California) U., 1958-1959;
assistant professor social science, University of Chicago, 1959-1966;
associate professor social science, University of Chicago, 1966-1971;
professor of law, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1971-1976;
professor of law and South Asian studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1976;
Evjue-Bascom professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1984-1997;
John & Rylla Bosshard professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1997. Director Disputes Processing Research Program, Madison, since 1977, Institute of Legal Studies, Madison, since 1990. Chair section on law and society science Association Am.Law Schools, 1986-1987.
Consultant Ford Foundation, New Delhi, 1981-1984, 89, National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Washington, 1983, 89.
(Can a democratic society pursue a policy of compensatory ...)
(Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin,...)
( What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? ...)
( Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one ...)
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Member Council on Role of Court Justices, Washington, 1979-1981, court statistics committee National.Ctr. for State Court Justices, Williamburg, Virginia, since 1986. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, American Law Institute, Law and Society Association (trustee 1976-1987, president 1983-1985), Association for Asian Studies (board directors 1974-1976), International Sociological Association (research commission on sociology of law since 1976), Commision on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism (president 1981-1983).
Married Eve Joyce Bell, June 18, 1967. Children: Seth, Rachel, Sarah.