Lowering the Bar Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

Name: Lowering the Bar Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
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ISBN: 9780299213541

ISBN-10: 0299213544

ISBN-13: 9780299213541

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marc Galanter

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What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor.Lowering the Baranalyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law coexists uneasily with anxiety about the "legalization" of society. Always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.nbsp;

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English