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War stories is the phrase used by academic lawyers to disparage the
ways practicing lawyers talk about their experiences. Gary Bellow
and Martha Minow in Law Stories have gathered a group of stories
that explore the actual experiences of clients and lawyers in
concrete legal contexts. The essays in Law Stories are all
first-person accounts of law problems and the way they were
handled, written by lawyers involved in the problems. They offer
the voice and insight of the self-reflective practitioner. As such
they provide us with a dimension missing from many third-person
accounts of cases, a layer of emotion and perspective on legal
institutions experienced by people caught or working within them.
Focusing on cases arising in public interest practices, the stories
deal with problems arising from child custody, parental rights in a
Head Start program, the consequences of large corporate bankruptcy
for the corporation's retirees, juvenile crime, unemployment
benefits, the rights of a victim of crime, the rights of welfare
recipients, and the rights of small shareholders. These stories
raise a variety of questions, including the nature and extent of
the lawyer's role, the way the system listens to certain kinds of
stories told in certain ways and refuses to hear other stories, how
participation in the legal system affects the identity of those who
are involved in it and how the popular image of law and legal
processes differs from the reality depicted in these cases. This
book will appeal to both practitioners and teachers of law as well
as social scientists interested in studying the role and place of
law in the system. The contributors include Anthony Alfieri, Gary
Bellow, Lenora M. Lapidus, Alice and Staughton Lynd, Martha Minow,
Nell Minow, Charles Ogletree, Abbe Smith, Lynne Weaver, and Lucie
E. White. [Law Stories will] enlighten not only law students but
the general and professional public who will find these accounts as
compelling as any work of popular fiction. Unhappily, these
accounts of law's inadequacy as a vehicle for social justice are
not fictions. . . . --Law and Politics Book Review Gary Bellow and
Martha Minow are Professors of Law, Harvard Law School.
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