Professor Bainbridge has just opened his copy, and in the mean time has assembled some of the favorable reviews and summaries of Schools for Misrule that other leading bloggers have already printed. You can buy your copy of the book there or here (usual Amazon commission applies).
Robert VerBruggen has written a favorable review of the book at National Review, under the title “The Gilded Guild” (paywall). A few highlights:
…An important theme here is that in law, careerism is a powerful force. As a result, the worst left-wing impulses of the legal academy tend to stumble when they come into conflict with lawyers’ self-interest, and to succeed when they advance it.
In particular, as the book relates, law students themselves have served as an effective check on some kinds of ideological adventurism by law faculties when such adventurism threatens to deprive them of a serviceable legal education. On the other hand, there’s often less of a check on bad ideas when they advance the welfare of lawyers present and future:
… And that’s where we see the true genius of legal academia, and the legal profession in general: It manages to argue, on moral grounds, that it deserves more work, more money, and more power.
Yesterday I spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at the Cato Institute auditorium in Washington, D.C. Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the D.C. circuit was generous in his comments, and there was a lively Q-and-A with the audience. Cato will post the event as a podcast at its media site.
The radio campaign for the book also proceeds apace. I was on the Mike Rosen show out of Denver on Tuesday, and in the next few days will appear on Kevin Whalen’s WRKO show in Boston (Sunday), Cam Edwards’ national show, and Steve Malzburg’s show on NYC’s WABC (both Monday).
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