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Judging Credentials will force lawyer, judges, scholars, and the public to reconsider the role nonlawyer judges play in the American judicial system. Provine's provocative views and exhaustive research add new dimensions to our understanding of the ethics of professionalism and its consequences.

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As the author of two books in the judicial process area and four years of personal experience as a town justice, Provine is well qualified to prepare this text on the role of nonlawyer judges in the US. A key theme in the book is that nonlawyer judges ``are virtually indistinguishable from lawyer judges in how they conceive and perform key elements of their jobs. Distinctions between individual judges are real enough, but legal education or its absence does not determine judicial attitudes or behavior in ways that are significant to the litigants who come before judges at this level'' (p. xiv). The first three chapters examine the efforts of the American legal profession to eliminate nonlawyer judges; Chapter 4 compares decision making between lay and lawyer jurists in New York. A fifth chapter examines the institutional environment of the nonlawyer judge, and a final chapter provides a brief look at lay adjudication abroad. The text is well written and is a first-rate blend of ideas and analysis from the realms of both law and political science. For upper-division undergraduate and graduate students.-R.A. Carp, University of Houston