| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 284 pages) |
| Contents |
The hatchery of bad ideas -- The forces of unanimity -- Careerism saves the day -- The higher volumes -- The authority business -- The classroom of advocacy -- Poor pitiful gulliver -- The permanent government -- "Responsibilities flow eternal" -- Unsettled : the return of Indian claims -- "The movement made global" -- Seized and detained |
| 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 reparations, to court |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Law schools -- United States.
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Practice of law -- United States
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LAW -- Legal Education.
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Law schools
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Law -- Study and teaching
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Practice of law
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1594035342 |
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9781594035340 |
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1283008572 |
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9781283008570 |
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