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Carrington, Paul DeWitt was born on June 12, 1931 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of Paul and Frances Ellen (DeWitt) Carrington.
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Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)
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Stewards of Democracy is a celebration of a moral tradition famously observed by Alexis de Tocqueville through the eyes of Francis Lieber, a Prussian emigré who in antebellum times wrote of political ethics, hermeneutics, and comparative constitutional law as aspects of the moral duties of American lawyers and judges. The duty of the profession unifying this tradition has been to nurture and protect the institutions of self-government on which depend the stability of our complex social order and the protection of all our legal rights. Thomas Cooley, perhaps the lawyer most respected by nineteenth century Americans, is presented as a primary exemplar of the dutiful tradition. Much of the book is an account of his career as judge, scholar, teacher, and founding chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Cooley's career was succeeded in the tradition by a trio of Progressives: Louis Brandeis, Ernst Freund, and Learned Hand, whose careers area also examined. Finally noted is the more recent career of Byron White.Carrington contends that the dutiful tradition marked by the careers of the five exemplars is threatened by the mutually reinforcing tendencies of the Supreme Court and other high courts, of highly respected legal scholars, of the most honored of our law schools, and of noted legal journalists, all of whom tend to work from the premise that political and moral judgments can best be made by an elite and imposed on a passive citizenry, a belief tending to fulfill itself. The result is a threatened suffocation of the political institutions commanding the loyalty and enduring support of citizens. The book concludes by suggesting possible causes for a future reversal of this long-term trend and the steps such a reversal might entail.
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This work argues that judges, lawyers, and law schools should emphasize experience and character over reason or arcane learning, to create a more democratic legal profession in tune with the public interest.
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Paul DeWitt Carrington
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Paul DeWitt Carrington, American Lawyer, educator. Bar: Texas 1955, Ohio 1962, Michigan 1967. Guggenheim fellow, 1988-1989. Member Ann Arbor (Michigan) Board Education, 1970-1973; president Private Adjudication Center, Inc., 1988-1994, chairman, since 1995. With United States Army, 1955-1957. Fellow American Bar Foundation; member American Bar Association, American Law Institute.
Education
Bachelor, University Texas, 1952; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1955.
Career
Practice, Dallas, 1955; teaching fellow, Harvard University, 1957-1958; assistant professor of law, University Wyoming, 1958-1960; assistant professor of law, Indiana U., 1960-1962; associate professor, Ohio State University, 1962-1965; professor, University of Michigan, 1965-1978; dean, Duke U. School Law, Durham, North Carolina, 1978-1988; professor, Duke U. School Law, Durham, North Carolina, since 1978. Reporter civil rules advising committee Judicial Conference of the United States, 1985-1992.
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Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)
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Stewards of Democracy: Law as Public Profession (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society) (Hardback) - Common
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Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)
Membership
Member Ann Arbor (Michigan) Board Education, 1970-1973. President Private Adjudication Center, Inc., 1988-1994, chairman, since 1995. With United States Army, 1955-1957.
Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association, American Law Institute.
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Married Bessie Meek, August, 1952. Children: Clark DeWitt, Mary Carrington Coults, William James, Emily Carrington Bell.
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