"Anyone who has attended law school knows that it entails an important intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as "learning to think like a lawyer." This process, which subtly induces students to think and talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is …
"Anyone who has attended law school knows that it entails an important intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as "learning to think like a lawyer." This process, which subtly induces students to think and talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is …
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
"In Jurismania, Paul Campos asserts that our legal system is beginning to exhibit symptoms of serious mental illness. Trials and appeals that stretch out for years and cost millions, 100-page appellate court opinions, 1,000-page statutes before which even lawyers tremble with fe…
This text argues that the American worship of law and legality can become so pathological it resembles a type of legal madness, or "Jurismania". It looks at law in American society, and concludes that much of what is called the rule of law resembles a form of obsessive-compulsiv…
The author examines the "mania for more law" and concludes that the United States should come to "a humbling recognition of the limits of reason and a much more modest role for our legal system."--Jacket
Vermeule denies the view that the limits of reason counsel in favour of judges making 'living' constitutional law in the style of the common law. Instead, he proposes and defends a 'codified constitution' - a regime in which legislatures have the primary authority to develop con…