Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field of law, the individual lawyer finds it increasingly difficult to be competent in its many areas. The informal solution has naturally been to specialize. But the A.B.A. has no rules or regulations governing specialization. After lengthy consideration of the problem, a committee on the availability of legal services recommended that the board of governors be allowed to draw up standards for certification of specialists. That modestly forward-looking proposal went to the house of delegates, where it was surprisingly defeated. Reason: many of the delegates are small, jack-of-all-fields practitioners who fear that an increase in specialization...
...problem, Fairbank writes, is the American reliance on negotiations and legal procedures. "We feel," Fairbank writes, "that negotiation is a legal process in which the rights of both sides may be respected and a mutual agreement arrived...
Fairbank writes that the Chinese have traditionally emphasized moral principles, not legal processes, and "they are more accustomed to government by elites who invoke these moral principles and values, and to mediation of disputes by third parties and upper class figures...
Because of this, the idea of negotiation is not highly esteemed on its legal merits since the parties cannot assume that they have certain basic legal rights assured, Fairbank writes. He continues: "Consequently, when we urge negotiations upon Hanoi, we are not aware of the lower valuation put upon the word in their tradition." Negotiation is viewed, Fairbank explained, as an alternative or even an adjunct to the use of force in conflict resolution...
...with good reason. Not that his price was too high. Indeed, he was asking for no money at all. And his manuscript was certainly topical: it was a copy in Russian of Svetlana Stalina's memoirs. Reason for the publishers' turndown: they all knew that the legal rights to the book had already been sold for a record $3,200,000 to other U.S. and British publishers, who plan to bring it out in October under the title Twenty Letters to a Friend...