Intro -- contents -- Chapter One The Hatchery of Bad Ideas -- Chapter Two The Forces of Unanimity -- Chapter Three Careerism Saves the Day -- Chapter Four The Higher Volumes -- Chapter Five The Authority Business -- Chapter Six The Classroom of Advocacy -- Chapter Seven Poor Pitiful Gulliver -- Chapter Eight The Permanent Government -- Chapter Nine "Responsibilities Flow Eternal -- Chapter Ten Forever Unsettled: The Return of Indian Claims -- Chapter Eleven ". . . The Movement Made Global -- Chapter Twelve Seized and Detained -- Chapter Thirteen Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action lawsuits that promote the right to sue anyone over anything, to court orders mandating the mass release of prison inmates; from the movement for slavery reparations, to court takeovers of school funding-all of these appalling ideas were hatched in legal academia. And the worst is yet to come. A fast-rising movement in law schools demands that sovereignty over U.S. legal disputes be handed over to international law and transnational courts. It is not by coincidence, Olson argues, that these bad ideas all tend to confer more power on the law schools' own graduates. In the overlawyered society that results, they are the ones who become the real rulers.

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