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Author Sagafi-nejad, Nancy Black, 1937-

Title Friends at the bar : a Quaker view of law, conflict resolution, and legal reform / Nancy Black Sagafi-nejad
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents About friends -- Friends' beginnings in England -- Penn's holy experiment in Pennsylvania and his changes to its laws -- Quakers as plaintiffs and defendants in court and as "divine lobbyists" -- Quaker lawyers and lawyer ethics -- Mediation and arbitration : past and future
Summary A Quaker lawyer looks at Friends' relationship with the American legal system and at Friends' legal ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Quakers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Religion and law -- United States
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Quakers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Religion and law
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010020730
ISBN 9781441687067
1441687068
1438434154
9781438434155