Schools for misrule : legal academia and an overlawyered America / by Walter Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Walter K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Study and teaching--United States.

Law.

Law schools--United States.

Law schools.

Practice of law--United States.

Practice of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next.The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action lawsuits that promote the right to sue anyone over anything, to court orders mandating the mass release of prison inmates; from the movement for slavery reparatio

Contents:

contents; Chapter One The Hatchery of Bad Ideas; Chapter Two The Forces of Unanimity; Chapter Three Careerism Saves the Day; Chapter Four The Higher Volumes; Chapter Five The Authority Business; Chapter Six The Classroom of Advocacy; Chapter Seven Poor Pitiful Gulliver; Chapter Eight The Permanent Government; Chapter Nine ""Responsibilities Flow Eternal""; Chapter Ten Forever Unsettled: The Return of Indian Claims; Chapter Eleven "". . . The Movement Made Global""; Chapter Twelve Seized and Detained; Chapter Thirteen Conclusion; Endnotes; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613008572

9781283008570

1283008572

9781594035340

1594035342

OCLC:

708568245