Follow up on Lisa Webley on Adversarialism Among Divorce Solicitors and Mediators in UK, and Other Paperbacks

Posted by Alan Childress

Two weeks ago, I posted that Lisa Webley had published to Kindle and Smashwords, via the “Publish Your Dissertation as a Digital Ebook” project, her book on the professional styles and differences among divorce lawyers in the UK and various professional mediator groups, Adversarialism and Consensus? That came out in multiple ebook formats, ePub for Nook, PDF, and online viewing through those sites. It should be on Barnes & Noble for Nook in two or three weeks. (Today, it is a Kindle book on the new Amazon UK.) The big follow-up is that it’s available this afternoon (or tonight) as a paperback of some 230 pages, including many tables and charts that we spent weeks on to present the very best we could (thanks, Lisa).  It came out really nice. Eventually it will be sold on Amazon and B&N in print, likely in September, but for now its best spot is this webpage for ordering (I think Amazon is the seller/shipper). Anyway, it is a very good dissertation and we hope it is useful for people’s research or their interest in the professions and the literature she analyzes in this context.

Also soon out in paperback, and on legal ethics, is my students’ collection, benefiting Tulane PILF: Hot Topics in the Legal Profession ~ 2010. Many great topics are explored, including ads and friending judges, and it benefits a great cause.

Of all the project’s other titles already sold as Kindle books or for its apps, or in other formats on Smashwords [or on B&N and Sony, but you have to search individually], the following have current paperbacks available or very soon. (And coming Aug. 24 is Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process, with new Foreword by Andrew Kaufman, professor of law at Harvard and the premier Cardozo biographer; more later). Paperbacks include:  

Kadish & Kadish’s classic Discretion to DisobeyInside the State:  The Bracero Program, Immigration and the INS; and Jerold Auerbach’s Jacob’s Voices: Reflections of a Wandering American Jew. The latter tells his very personal story of struggling with assimilation in the U.S. and academia (and baseball!).

Also in the series with Cardozo, see Holmes, The Common Law (a very-affordable-but-hyperaccurate edition with my Foreword); and The Annotated Common Law, with the Foreword and accuracy, plus some 200 textual asides to decode his legal terms, old phrases, Latin and Greek, and all those writs. Turns out it helps that my old Southern relatives used expressions and speech patterns just like him (which is ironic since some of their kin may of shot him). And Warren & Brandeis, The Right to Privacy. Some nice new ones are on the way, including several classics, several new manuscripts (turns out some established authors were happy to eschew traditional publishing houses), and of course more on the legal profession and legal ethics. …Wish I was publishing Jeff’s new book on getting into law teaching, but congrats!