Schooled Lawyers: A Study in the Clash of Professional Cultures.
Johnson, William R. Schooled Lawyers: A Study in the Clash of Professional Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 1978. First edition. xvii, 215 pp. Publisher's blue cloth near fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear along edges and sunning to spine. Internally clean. $35. * A meticulous institutional and legal history examining the historical evolution of American legal education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Johnson analyzes the intense cultural and professional clash between traditional, apprenticeship-trained practitioners and the rising class of university-educated, degree-holding attorneys. The work provides an in-depth look at how the formalization of law schools reshaped bar admissions, legal pedagogy, and the sociology of the American legal profession.
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