Stewards of Democracy: Law As Public Profession
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...
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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. Booknews Carrington (civil procedure, Duke U. Law School) contends that the legal tradition marked by the careers of the five exemplars featured in this volume is threatened by the mutually reinforcing tendencies of the Supreme Court and other high courts, of legal scholars, of law schools, and of legal journalists who, he believes, often work from the premise that political and moral judgments can best be made by an elite and imposed on a passive citizenry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
\ BooknewsCarrington (civil procedure, Duke U. Law School) contends that the legal tradition marked by the careers of the five exemplars featured in this volume is threatened by the mutually reinforcing tendencies of the Supreme Court and other high courts, of legal scholars, of law schools, and of legal journalists who, he believes, often work from the premise that political and moral judgments can best be made by an elite and imposed on a passive citizenry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
