In the public imagery, jury trials are very emblematic to people of what the law is. -Marc Galanter

 

In the public imagery, jury trials are very emblematic to people of what the law is.


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You can learn from them, you can see what is bothering people. ... The jokes are a screen on which people project their feelings about lawyers and the law.

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Lawyers in the United States have a central role, a visibility and prominence that doesn't exist anywhere else.

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We have 500-year-old lawyer jokes still in circulation and most of them go back at least 100 years. But around the 1980s, there was a great shift. They became much more hostile. -Marc Galanter
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For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking them ... but at the same time, for the larger population, there is a kind of disappointment with law. There was a sense that lawyers were going to bring remedies and justice -- and (they don't), so everybody ends up having a grievance about lawyers.

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In the public imagery, jury trials are very emblematic to people of what the law is.

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I don't look to jokes as a balanced look at life. But they can be an indicator. Jokes work on shared and collective perceptions among people. -Marc Galanter
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A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documented case histories.

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