An edition of Lowering the Bar (2005)
Lowering the Bar
Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
By Marc Galanter
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Publish Date
September 1, 2005
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Language
eng
Pages
448
Description:
"Lowering the Bar analyzes 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."--BOOK JACKET.