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Book SynopsisAt a time when complaints are heard everywhere about the excesses of lawyers, judges, and law itself, the author focuses attention on the American legal mind and its urge to lay down the law. For him, legalism is a way of thinking that extends far beyond the customary official precincts of the law.
Trade Review"Schlag [has] established himself as one of the most creative thinkers in the contemporary legal academy. To read [these essays] one after another is exhilarating; Schlag's sophistication shines through. In chapter after chapter he tackles the most vexing problems of law and legal thinking." * Choice *
"Pierre Schlag has been through the collapse of legal theory and lived to tell the tale, a tale that is burdened by as few illusions as possible except for the saving one of hope. He is also a great (and serious) comic." -- Stanley Fish,Duke University
"Pierre Schlag is the great iconoclast of the American legal academy. Few professors today are so consistently original, funny, and provocative." -- Jack Balkin,Yale Law School
