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.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Encounter Books, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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