CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

Preface: The Exception Is the Rule

Introduction

Chapter 1—The Value of Law: More Than Just a Nuisance

Chapter 2—Jurisprudence: Making and Breaking Law

Chapter 3—Legal Education:The School as Scandal

Chapter 4—Legislatures: Outsourced Sausage-Making

Chapter 5—Bureaucracy: Empire by Form

Chapter 6—Judges: Robots, Umpires, or Gods?

Chapter 7—Arbitration: Privatized Justice

Chapter 8—Legal Economics: Putting a Price on Priceless

Chapter 9—Prosecutors and Defenders: Angels of Vengeance and Mercy

Chapter 10—Police: The Thick Blue Line

Chapter 11—Proof: The Evidence for Evidence

Chapter 12—Remedies: How Many Wrongs Make a Right?

Chapter 13—Failing from the Top Down: Imperial Presidencies and Constitutional Erosion

Conclusion: Proposals Modest and Otherwise

Acknowledgments

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Appendix: A Binding Illustration of Why People Hate the Law

Also by Bruce Cannon Gibney

Notes