Marc Galanter
Marc Galanter
Marc Galanter is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Previously he was the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and the Law, Contracts, Dispute Processing and Negotiations. He has authored numerous books and articles related to law, the legal...
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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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The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.
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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.
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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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In the public imagery, jury trials are very emblematic to people of what the law is.
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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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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.
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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.