Steven Lubet (essay date May 1999)
SOURCE: Lubet, Steven. “Reconstructing Atticus Finch.” Michigan Law Review 97, no. 6 (May 1999): 1339-62.
[In the following essay, Lubet questions the standard perception of Atticus Finch as a role model for lawyers. Lubet provides an analysis of the trial portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird from the perspective of today's legal defense methods and ethics, particularly in regard to rape trials.]
I. INTRODUCTION
Atticus Finch.
No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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