Walter Olson: 2 books
Schools for Misrule
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
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...
The Rule of Lawyers
How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Big-ticket litigation is a way of life in this country. But something new is afoot--something typified by the $246 billion tobacco settlement, and by courtroom assaults that have followed against industries ranging from HMOs to gunmakers, from lead paint manufacturers to "factory farms."...