摘要:As one of the respondents who participated in the "Resilienceand Law" panel session at the 2011 Resilience Conference,my intentionally provocative opening comments were to theeffect that lawyers and the legal system are amongst the majorcauses of low and declining resilience in the western world.In short, Cosens and Williams (2012) is an excellent counter-point to this view — at least as far as the effects of lawyersgoes