Mary Ann Glendon’s A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world, in which even lawyers themselves can lose their bearings. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance. Dramatizing issues and events through stories of lawyers and laypersons caught up in the currents of change, she provides a frank assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture.

• CONTENTS 
• Introduction
• 1. 
• A Nation Under Lawyers
• Part I. 
• Professionalism and Its Discontents
• 2. 
• When Just Being a Good Lawyer Isn't Enough
• 3. 
• Connoisseurs of Conflict
• 4. 
• When Ethical Worlds Collide
• 5. 
• Feeling Bad When One Should Be Feeling Good; Feeling Good When One Should Be Feeling Bad
• Part II. 
• The Ways and Tastes of Magistrates
• 6. 
• Cracks in the Classical Façade
• 7. 
• The New Ball Game
• 8. 
• The Extra Man on the Field: Hey! Wasn't That the Umpire?
• Part III. 
• The Lamp of Learning
• 9. 
• The Ballad of Karl Llewellyn
• 10. 
• The New Academy—Look, Ma! No Hands!
• 11. 
• The Mighty Princess and the Woman by the Wayside
• Part IV. 
• Lawyers and The Democratic Experiment
• 12. 
• One Vast School of Law
• 13. 
• In the Balance
• Notes
• Index