Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

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 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 American's deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-08-30
Mått:178 x 254 x 23 mm
Vikt:808 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:9780299213541

Utforska kategorier

Rättsvetenskap inom Juridik
Humor och presentböcker inom Sport, fritid och hobby

Mer om författaren

Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Centennial Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Recensioner i media

Hilarious and philosophical at the same time, a nifty probe of the genre, regularly guilty of wise humor. - Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer ""I never realized how funny and serious lawyer jokes could be. Galanter does to lawyer jokes what Freud did to Jewish jokes in his classic Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, but sometimes a good joke is just a good joke."" - Alan Dershowitz, author of Rights from Wrongs ""This book should be on every folklorist's and lawyer's shelf, although the latter may want to put it in a plain brown wrapper."" - Jan Harold Brunvand, author of Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends ""Anyone who finds lawyer jokes humorous (including most lawyers) or has always wondered about how and why they became so popular will very much enjoy this 'lowering of the bar.'"" - Alan J. Couture, ForeWord Magazine