Cultural Considerations in Advocacy: United States (Global Arbitration Review)
Global Arbitration Review, August 18, 2023
Cultural Considerations in Advocacy: United States
In a 1950 speech to the New York City Bar Association about the basic rules of pleading, Professor Jerome Michael took stock of, and set the context for, how advocacy developed in the United States: ‘[I]n our courts, when we are at peace or at relative peace, we conduct our controversies by way of language. It follows, of course, that if you want to understand procedural law, you must understand the intellectual activities….’