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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. Unorthodox, irreverent, and provocative, Against the Law demonstrates that for m… More >>
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Against the Law by Paul Campos, Steven Smith, & Pierre Schag
The study of law has become a secular religion, a fetish, and canard for what really ails society,
the courts, and lawyers. These young professors of law write about the bogus charade that has
become legal reasoning in America. I may well remind them that the Constitution has never
guaranteed justice to anyone — only its substitute, due process of law — and this requires the
legal profession to ignore substance and pursue ad absurdam trivial questions of form to the
exclusion of all other topics. Some of the essays, however, are written in the worst traditions of
legal writing.
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