Book Reviews : The Integrated Bar. By DAYTON DAVID McKEAN. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Pp. vi, 151. $4.50.)

• Published date: 01 December 1965
• Date: 01 December 1965
• Author: George A. Hopper
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296501800446
• Subject Matter: Articles

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tion

of

the

value

to

be

reaped

from

decision

methods

like

mutual

adjustment.

Lindblom

seems

too

concerned

to

argue

the

distinctiveness

of

his

analysis,

when

he

need

not

have

done

more

than

simply

present

it,

and

in

so

doing

he

underrated

or

overlooked

a

burgeoning

body

of

recent

literature

which

could

have

further

bolstered

and

enhanced

his

argument.

What

he

attempted

to

do

was

set

his

work

apart,

whereas

what

I

would

rather

he

had

done

is

to

set

it

more

directly

within

the

contexts

provided

in

related

works

by

showing

their

mutual

congruencies

and

supplementations.

I

am

not

arguing

that

he

should

have

given

us

an

&dquo;illustrative

application&dquo;

of

his

scheme

to

each

of

the

decision

arenas

that

exist

in

American

politics,

but

only

that

if

he

had

more

closely

integrated

the

thinking

and

research

already

done

in

these

fields

into

his

own

analysis,

it

may

have been

more

elaborate

and

easier

to

refer

it

back

meaningfully

to

these

various

areas.

In

this

way

he

could

have

broadened

his

contribution

and

demon-

strated

the

power

and

utility

of

his

concepts

more

effectively

-

and

he

would

have

put

us

farther

along

the

way

toward

being

able

to

do

the

crucial

&dquo;molding,&dquo;

as

he

puts

it,

of

the

mutual

adjustment

process

that

is

required

if

we

are

to

insure

its

acceptability

in

a

democratic

governmental

process.

But

this

is

perhaps

demanding

too

much;

one

cannot

say

everything

in

one

book.

It

is

the

paradox

of

scholarly

endeavor

that

every

job

well

done

is

itself

the

source

of

a

multiplicity

of

other

tasks

for

analysis.

ORION

WHITE,

JR.

University

of

Texas

The

Integrated

Bar.

By

DAYTON

DAVID

McKEAN.

(Boston:

Houghton

Mifflin

Company, 1963.

Pp. vi, 151.

$4.50.)

Since

political

science

and

the

law

are

sister

disciplines

it

is

fitting

that

political

scientists

make

studies

of

the

organized

bar.

McKean’s

small

book

is

a

significant

incursion

into

an

area

too

long

ignored.

Unfortunately,

the

author’s

approach

appears

at

times

to

be

more

of

a

polemic

against,

rather

than

an

analysis

of,

the

integrated

bar

movement.

This

reviewer

as

a

member

of

an

integrated

bar

has

found

that

in

operation

such

a

system

has

much

more

to

offer

on

the

affirmative

side

of the

issue

than

on

the

negative.

Creeping

guildism

is

certainly

possible

in

theory

but

not

in

practice

at

least

in

an

integrated

(i.e.,

compulsory)

bar

state

such

as

California

where

the

legislature

(with

its

usual

high

percentage

of

lawyer

members)

controls

the

amount

of

state

bar

dues

and

has

shown

no

indication

of

instituting

&dquo;call

fees&dquo;

(entrance

fees

designed

to

limit

the

numbers

in

the

profession).

The

integrated

bar

would

also

appear

to

be

an

appropriate

vehicle

in

the

establishment

of

funds

to

indemnify

the

public

against

losses

due

to

misconduct

by

lawyers.

This

book

includes,

in

addition

to

short

chapters

on

the

professions

in

American

Politics

and

the

Closed

Shop

for

Lawyers,

an

excellent

concise

history

of

the

inte-

grated

bar

and

its

operation

today

together

with

an

adequate

analysis

of

the

Lathrop

case

(the

Wisconsin

integrated

bar

case

decided

by

the

U.S.

Supreme

Court

in

1961 ),

and

the

story

of

Herbert

Harley

of

the

American

Judicature

Society.

Harley

deserves

a

better

presentation

and

was

far

from

the

sinister

person

depicted

by

McKean.