Law in Contemporary Society

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 Why she believes misrepresentation of fact is so much worse than other types of lying speaks to the heart of the question she leaves the reader with: why the law is what it is.

"Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture," or How Lawyers Lie with Clothing

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 Leaving questions of sociobiology aside, humans have the ability to define, more or less, their own phenotypes, within the confines of societal expectation and their own abilities. The idea of a profession manifesting itself in a set phenotype is of course a generalization—Day seems to subscribe to it while simultaneously rejecting it. She is consciously proud that she fits a different phenotype than one would expect; she also recognizes that, at least in Family Court, there are lawyers who wear jeans and chew gum. But this does not fit into her conception of the world, and she quickly retreats into stereotype.

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