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Zen And The Art Of Jursiprudence, Matthew K. Roskoski
Zen And The Art Of Jursiprudence, Matthew K. Roskoski
Michigan Law Review
Lawyer bashing is by no means a remarkable phenomenon. It was not remarkable when Shakespeare wrote, "[t]he first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," and it's not remarkable today. Paul Campos, however, has written a particularly readable example, blending venerable Western lawyer-bashing and pop psychology with unsystematic invocations of Eastern religion. Jurismania is named after Campos's theory that the American legal system has a lot in common with a person suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, an addiction to law that does neither the patient nor those around him much good. In Jurismania, Campos criticizes our insistence on regulating …
Kill All The Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal, Kevin T. Traskos
Kill All The Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal, Kevin T. Traskos
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal by Daniel J. Kornstein
Posner On Literature, L. H. Larue
Posner On Literature, L. H. Larue
Michigan Law Review
Judge Richard A. Posner has expanded the scope of his writing. We have previously known him as one of the leaders in law and economics. He is now moving into the field of law and literature. His offering is an article, Law and Literature: A Relation Reargued, which has been published in the Virginia Law Review.
As one might expect, he performs intelligently. Posner is well read in literature; he displays a genuine love for that which he has read; and he writes with wit and grace. In short, in law and literature, as in law and economics, Posner …
The Failure Of The Word: The Protagonist As Lawyer In Modern Fiction, Nancy T. Hammar
The Failure Of The Word: The Protagonist As Lawyer In Modern Fiction, Nancy T. Hammar
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction by Richard H. Weisberg