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

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...

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Main Author: Olson, Walter K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Encounter Books, 2011.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 284 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1594035342
9781594035340
1283008572
9781283008570
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.