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Jurismania provides a sharp reminder that the law cannot solve all problems, and serves up a chilling vision of a demented world in which regulation is all-pervasive and where respect for the law is lost through its misuse. It is a cautionary tale upon which we could do worse than reflect. * Roderick Munday, Justice of the Peace Volume 163 *

The breadth of Campos' work is astounding. He derives insights from such disparate sources as the codes of behavior regulating everything from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to his local library in demonstrating the absurd applications of legal thinking in American life.... His book is a work of serious scholarship, but Campos' writing is never dry. --The Denver Post<br> [An] acerbic analysis....A pointed, well-argued polemic. --Booklist<br>

"""The breadth of Campos' work is astounding. He derives insights from such disparate sources as the codes of behavior regulating everything from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to his local library in demonstrating the absurd applications of legal thinking in American life.... His book is a work of serious scholarship, but Campos' writing is never dry.""--The Denver Post ""[An] acerbic analysis....A pointed, well-argued polemic.""--Booklist ""The full force of postmodernism is at work here, its sledgehammer of skepticism pounding at the very foundations of what we think of as law. And, as Campos recounts, at times brilliantly, the actors of the legal world, from unethical lawyers to a bickering and divided Supreme Court, give energy the assault, perhaps unwittingly.""--The Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Campos is insightful, witty, and urbane. He demonstrates again and again the ludicrous and oppressive pretensions of hyperegulative law and the `public reason' of courts and their academic handmaidens. I enthusiastically recommend Jurismania to everyone concerned with the ever-increasing intrusion of law and bureaucracy into our lives, and particularly to us legal academics, who have helped make this mess and who continue to profit from it.""--Larry A. Alexander, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego ""In a famous line one of Shakespeare's characters says, `Kill all the lawyers.' Paul Campos reports that the lawyers are killing us and that if we want to be serious about our problems we might begin by losing the illusion that the legal culture will solve them. A bracing message for an increasingly litigious society.""--Stanley Fish, Duke University ""The breadth of Campos' work is astounding. He derives insights from such disparate sources as the codes of behavior regulating everything from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to his local library in demonstrating the absurd applications of legal thinking in American life.... His book is a work of serious scholarship, but Campos' writing is never dry.""--The Denver Post ""[An] acerbic analysis....A pointed, well-argued polemic.""--Booklist"

<br> The breadth of Campos' work is astounding. He derives insights from such disparate sources as the codes of behavior regulating everything from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to his local library in demonstrating the absurd applications of legal thinking in American life.... His book is a work of serious scholarship, but Campos' writing is never dry. --The Denver Post<br> [An] acerbic analysis....A pointed, well-argued polemic. --Booklist<br>

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Paul Campos is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and Director of the Byron R. White Center for American Constitutional Study.

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