At an April 10 panel hosted by the National Constitution Center, four federal judges—Michelle Childs (D.C. Circuit), Margaret McKeown (9th Circuit), Beth Bloom (S.D. Fla.), and Stephen Bough (W.D. Mo.)—issued a stark warning: escalating threats, intimidation, and political attacks on judges are eroding public trust and endangering the judiciary’s role in American democracy. Drawing on …
Tracks the evolution of the legal profession in Russia. Includes a translation of the post-Soviet law on the legal profession.
Overview of the Russian courts. Includes chapters dealing with political cases and the legal profession.
Memoir of defense lawyer who was active during the 1960s. She shares her experiences representing prominent Soviet dissidents and the extent to which the bar association supported her.
Sets forth a systematic conceptualization of legal mobilization and situates it within a typology of uses of the law.
The role of the legal institution during the rise of Nazi Germany.
Since 1988, global shifts—driven by neoliberalism, globalization, technological change, and the fall of the Soviet bloc—have transformed the legal profession, prompting a comparative analysis of its structure, roles, and challenges across issues like diversity, ethics, access to justice, and legal education.
A deep dive into the argument for how lawyers, particularly in mature legal systems, must move beyond passive roles and actively defend the rule of law in response to growing threats to democratic principles.
Glendon outlines the changes within the legal system and offers her assessment of the people and ideas that are transforming our law-dependent culture.
The Trump administration has created a major bottleneck in the immigration court system by firing over two dozen immigration judges and prompting the resignation or reassignment of more than 100 others, resulting in a 70% reduction in staffing across dozens of courts. The mass vacancies have intensified an already severe backlog of over 4 million …