Against the Law

"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

About the author

Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith

Summary

Presents a critique of American law and legal thought. This work demonstrates that for many in the legal community, law has become a kind of substitute religion, an idolatrous practice composed of self-misrepresentation and self-deception. It is of interest to legal academics, sociologists, historians, social theorists, and American lawyers.

Product details

• Authors: Paul F Campos, Paul F. Campos, Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D Smith, Steven D. Smith, Steven D. Smith
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.1996
• EAN: 9780822318354
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1835-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Constitutional Conflicts; Constitutional Conflicts
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht