Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594032332)

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 takeovers of school funding--all of these appalling ideas were hatched in legal academia. And the worst is yet to come. A fast-rising movement in law schools demands that sovereignty over U.S. legal disputes be handed over to international law and transnational courts.

It is not by coincidence, Olson argues, that these bad ideas all tend to confer more power on the law schools' own graduates. In the overlawyered society that results, they are the ones who become the real rulers.


Author: Walter Olson
ISBN-10: 1594032335
ISBN-13: 9781594032332
Publisher: Encounter Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.41w x 1.04d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2011
Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 86