{"product_id":"law-stories-gary-bellow-9780472085194","title":"Law Stories","description":"\"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 \u003ci\u003eLaw Stories\u003c\/i\u003e have gathered a group of stories that explore the actual experiences of clients and lawyers in concrete legal contexts.\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eLaw Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eFocusing 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. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eLaw Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eLaw and Politics Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Bellow and Martha Minow are Professors of Law, Harvard Law School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Bellow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472085190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472085194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.07w x 0.83d","brand":"Gary Bellow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447750766847,"sku":"9780472085194","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4522c935-ab2c-47bf-93a7-9e40d41568f5.jpg?v=1777234558","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/law-stories-gary-bellow-9780472085194","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}