Chapter One A Theoretical Overview 3
Assembly Line B. Traven 4
1 Legal Reasoning 12
The Bramble Bush&Karl N. Llewellyn 13
State v. Pendergrass 15
Joyner v. Joyner 17
State v. Black 19
State v. Rhodes 20
State v. Mabrey 23
The Bramble Bush&Karl N. Llewellyn 24
State v. Oliver 26
2 Law and Official Discretion 28
The Judging Process and the Judge's Personality&Jerome Frank 29
A Forgery Case 36
A Case of Robbery and Rape 42
3 Law and Values 43
The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens 44
The Human Fetus as Useful Research Material 52
Cook v. State 53
4 Law and Conflicting Interests 55
The Case of the Spoiled Chiles&Laura Nader 58
Susquehanna Fertilizer Co. v. Malone 59
Madison v. Ducktown Sulphur, Copper ＆ Iron Co. 61
Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. 66
Ohio v. Wyandotte Chemicals Corp. 69
5 Law, Status, Wealth, and Power 73
Streich v. General Motors Corp. 75
The State V. I. Lenin 78
From Day Clean to First Dark&Kenneth Stampp 81
Thornton and Wife v. The Suffolk Manufacturing Company 85
Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. NLRB 91
NLRB v. Yeshiva University 98
6 Law and Popular Will 106
The Cheyenne Way&Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel 108
Law and Authority&Peter Kropotkin 112
IRS Response to the Illegal Tax Protester Movement 119
United States v. Carlson 126
United States v. Catlett 130
Conclusion 134
Suggested Additional Readings 135
Chapter Two The Police 139
Shooting an Elephant&George Orwell 140
1 A Citizen's Perspective 145
Police Questioning of Law Abiding Citizens&Charles A. Reich 145
Brown v. Texas 155
2 Legal Perspectives 158
A. Police-Citizen Encounters 158
Terry v. State of Ohio 158
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Harry Mimms 167
Delaware v. Prouse 174
People v. John 181
B. The Exclusionary Rule 184
Why Suppress Valid Evidence?&Malcolm Richard Wilkey 185
The Exclusionary Rule: Have Critics Proven That It Doesn't Deter Police?&Bradley Canon 187
3 The Media Perspective 192
Television, the Law, and the Police&Stephen Arons and Ethan Katsh 193
4 Discretionary Justice 200
Arrest: The Decision to Take a Suspect into Custody&Wayne R. LaFave 201
5 A Societal Perspective 203
The Police Role in an Urban Society&Bernard L. Garmire 205
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove Center for Research on Criminal Justice 209
Jammed Tokyo's Crime Rate Is Far Below New York's&Sydney H. Schanberg 214
People v. Zelinski 218
Suggested Additional Readings 223
Chapter Three The Legal Profession 227
1 The Lawyer in Society 229
The Temper of the Legal Profession in the United States&Alexis de Tocqueville 231
The Impact of Social Backgrounds of Lawyers on Law Practice and the Law&Jack Ladinsky 235
Lawyers&C. Wright Mills 244
2 Legal Education 251
The Trouble with Law School&Scott Turow 252
Law School: Caught in the Paradigmatic Squceze&John J. Bonsignore 257
The Ordinary Religion of the Law School Classroom&Roger C. Cramton 262
The Sorcerer and His Magic&Claude Levi-Strauss 269
3 The Lawyer in the Legal System 272
The Ethics of Advocacy&Charles P. Curtis 272
The "Fight" Theory versus the "Truth" Theory&Jerome Frank 279
The Practice of Law as Confidence Game&Abraham S. Blumberg 285
"I Have Nothing To Do With Justice"&James Mills 292
Trickster, Hero, Helper: A Report on the Lawyer Image&Marvin W. Mindes with Alan C. Acock 307
4 The Lawyer and Social Reform 310
Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change&Marc Galanter 311
At the Edge of Law&John J. Bonsignore 323
Suggested Additional Readings 329
Chapter Four Community Participation in Legal Process 331
1 The Jury as a Form of Community Participation 334
A. The Jury in a Cultural Context 334
The Ordeal as a Vehicle for Divine Intervention in Medieval Europe&William J. Tewksbury 334
Note on the History of the Jury Trial 336
U.S. Constitution 338
People v. Collins 339
The Trial of the Future&Bernard Botein and Murray A. Gordon 346
B. The Jury as a Political Institution 351
Trial by Jury in the United States&Alexis de Tocqueville 351
Duncan v. Louisiana 355
Excerpt from The Transformation of American Law Morton Horwitz 358
Jury Nullification-The Right to Say No&A. Scheflin 360
Jury Instructions 365
United States v. Dougherty 365
C. The Waning of the American Jury 373
Williams v. Florida 373
Johnson v. Louisiana 374
Apodaca et al. v. Oregon 376
The Waning of the American Jury&Hans Zeisel 376
Note on the Use of Expert Testimony in Jury Trials 380
Note on the Ethics of Selecting Jurors 381
Note on Constitutional Protection of Fair Jury Selection 383
D. Conscience, Individual and Collective: A Problem injury Deliberation 388
Excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham Jail"&Martin Luther King, Jr. 390
The Trial of Sam Lovejoy&Stephen Davis 392
2 Community Participation: Other Forms, Other Cultures 399
When Two Twists Led the Cheyennes Against the Crows 399
People's Court in China: Trial of a Divorce Case&Doris Brin Walker 402
The Cuban Popular Tribunals&Jesse Berman 406
The Relegalization of Cuba&Peter Irons 411
Mediation in America 414
New Justice Theories and Practice&Raymond Shonholtz 415
Mediating Disputes: An American&Paradox Janet Rifkin 420
3 Law, Community, and the Individual 423
Introduction to&Wayward Puritans Kai Erikson 423
Cheyenne Way: Claims and Law-Ways&Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel 427
From Law in Modern Society Roberto Unger 428
The Evolution and Development of the Chinese Legal System&Victor H. Li 430
Suggested Additional Readings 436
Chapter Five Punishment 439
1 Views of Punishment 441
Reflections on the Guillotine&Albert Camus 441
From&Punishment and Social Structure Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer 445
From&Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 446
Furman v. Georgia 450
Gregg v. Georgia 451
Lockett v. Ohio 454
2 Institutionalization and Reform 458
Behavior Modification in Total Institutions&David Rothman 458
Holt v. Sarver 461
Rules and Regulations for Inmates at Cook County Jail, Chicago, Illinois 468
3 Rehabilitation 471
Behavior Modification in Total Institutions&David Rothman 471
Behavior Modification in Total Institutions&David Rothman 475
4 Beyond Rehabilitation 480
Is Rehabilitation Dead?&Seymour L. Halleck and Ann D. Witte 480
Sentencing Reform and Prosecutorial Power&Albert W. Alschuler 486
Conclusion 488
Suggested Additional Readings 489
Chapter Six Images of Law and Society 491
The Masks of the Law&Peter d'Errico 493
The Law Is Terror Put Into Words&Peter d'Errico 496
1 Shaking Belief 500
In Death's Grey Land&Philip Caputo 500
In the Name of the People&Tiziano Terzani 507
The Plague&Albert Camus 511
2 Lions and Lambs 515
Virginian Liberators&John T. Noonan, Jr. 515
The Rule of Law Versus the Order of Custom&Stanley Diamond 520
Cracking the Safe&Chuang Tzu 533
3 Systematic Thought 535
Socialist Law and Legal Institutions&Michael E. Tigar 535
The Organizational Revolution&Frederick C. Thayer 542
4 The Perfect Illusions 548
The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts&Alexander Liazos 548
Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail&Clarence Darrow 556
Suggested Additional Readings 562
Index 565