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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, this book consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a criticism of contemporary legal culture. It is of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists.

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“Against the Law is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship’s complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. Against the Law is not against the law; just the ways law professors imagine it.”—J. M. Balkin, Yale Law School
“Against the Law is must reading, especially for those who believe that Law does or can embody Reason and Morality. Campos, Schlag, and Smith, ever the iconoclasts, raise profound questions about both the truth of these claims and their meaning. All legal theorists will benefit from the encounter with this highly intelligent, quite original, and unflinchingly skeptical work.”—Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law

Against the Law

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    A Paperback / softback by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 22 October 1996
      ISBN-13 9780822318415
      978-0822318415
      ISBN-10 0822318415
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, this book consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a criticism of contemporary legal culture. It is of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists.

      Trade Review
      “Against the Law is a sometimes playful, sometimes pungent polemic about the state of legal theory today. Three authors from different parts of the political spectrum come together in this book to attack contemporary legal scholarship’s complacency, idolatry, and insipidness. Against the Law is not against the law; just the ways law professors imagine it.”—J. M. Balkin, Yale Law School
      “Against the Law is must reading, especially for those who believe that Law does or can embody Reason and Morality. Campos, Schlag, and Smith, ever the iconoclasts, raise profound questions about both the truth of these claims and their meaning. All legal theorists will benefit from the encounter with this highly intelligent, quite original, and unflinchingly skeptical work.”—Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law

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