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Walter Olson
is an author and critic whose acclaimed books The Litigation Explosion, The Excuse Factory, and The Rule of Lawyers have changed the way we think about the American legal system. A senior fellow at the Cato Institute, he is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers and has written columns for Great Britain's Times Online and Reason. His online work includes Overlawyered.com, widely cited as the oldest blog about law.
Schools for Misrule
Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our national leaders today emerge from the rarefied air of the nation’s top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often wind up shaping national policy in the next. The trouble is, as Walter Olson explains in this book, [...]