Against the Law (Constitutional Conflicts)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822318350 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Ranging from the institutional to the psychological and metaphysical deficiencies of the American legal system, the depth of criticism offered by Against the Law is unprecedented.In a departure from the nearly universal legitimating and reformist tendencies of American legal thought, this book will be of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Paul F. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. The authors argue that the relentlessly normative prescriptions of American legal thinkers are frequently futile and, indeed, often pernicious. More particularly, it will engage all the American lawyers who suspect that there is something very wrong with the nature and direction of their profession, law students who anticipate becoming part of that profession, and those readers concerned with the status of the American legal system.. Unorthodox, irreverent, and provocative, Ag
Against the Law is not against the law; just the ways law professors imagine it.”—J. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship’s complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. Balkin, Yale Law School. “Against the Law is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. M
A Customer said Law as religion is an interesting idea put in a dull manner.. Against the Law by Paul Campos, Steven Smith, & Pierre SchagThe study of law has become a secular religion, a fetish, and canard for what really ails society, the courts, and lawyers. These young professors of law write about the bogus charade that has become legal reasoning in America. I may well remind them that the Constitution has never guaranteed justice to anyone -- only its subst