Copyright © 2009 by Philip K. Howard
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Howard, Philip K.
Life without lawyers : liberating Americans from too much law / Philip
K. Howard. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-393-06566-4 (hardcover)
1. Law—United States. 2. Law reform—United States. 3. Litigious
paranoia—United States. 4. Commonsense reasoning. I. Title.
KF384.H6925 2009
349.73—dc22
2008047760
ISBN 978-0-393-33803-4 pbk.
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