Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

1-7-2016

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; AARN Subject Matter eJournals; Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network

Abstract

The public are discontent with lawyers believing them cold impersonal and grasping At the same time lawyers are unhappy with their work finding it overly regimented and pressured Rodrigo and the professor joined by Giannina Rodrigo's wife who is now a law student at a top school discuss what lies behind these discontents which they deem related They also trace them to a common source namely law's preoccupation with form formalism and doctrine at the expense of human values and connection

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