TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campos,Paul F.
TI  - Jurismania: The Madness of American Law
SN  - 9780195351378
AV  - KF379.C36 1999 
U1  - 349.73/01 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Law--United States--Methodology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. American Culture and the Madness of Law -- 2. The Color of Money -- 3. The Anarchic Panopticon -- 4. Leaving Las Vegas -- 5. Rationalization and Its Discontents -- 6. Toward a General Theory of Unicorns -- 7. Addicted to Law -- 8. The Future of an Illusion -- 9. The Banality of Goodness -- 10. The Way of Renunciation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - 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 fear, and a public that grows more litigious every day all testify to a judicial overkill that borders on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Campos locates the source of such madness, paradoxically, in our worship of reason and the resulting belief that all problems are amenable to legal solutions.In insightful discussions of a wide range of cases, from NCAA regulations of student-athletes to the Simpson trial, Campos shows that the mania for more law exacerbates the very problems it seeks to remedy. Clearly written, Jurismania gives us a CAT-scan of the American legal mind at work
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