Nonsense factory : the making and breaking of the American legal system /
Gibney, Bruce,
Nonsense factory : the making and breaking of the American legal system / Bruce Cannon Gibney. - First edition. - 504 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-489) and index.
The Value of Law: More Than Just a Nuisance -- Jurisprudence: Making and Breaking Law -- Legal Education: The School as Scandal -- Legislatures: Outsourced Sausage-Making -- Bureaucrazy: Empire by Form -- Judges: Robots, Umpires, or Gods? -- Arbitration: Privatized Justice -- Legal Economics: Putting a Price on Priceless -- Prosecutors and Defenders: Angels of Vengeance and Mercy -- Police: The Thick Blue Line -- Proof: The Evidence for Evidence -- Remedies: How Many Wrongs Make a Right? -- Failing from the Top Down: Imperial Presidencies and Constitutional Erosion -- Conclusion: Proposals Modest and Otherwise.
0316475262 9780316475266
GBB960604 bnb
019345416 Uk
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
Law--United States.
Nonsense factory : the making and breaking of the American legal system / Bruce Cannon Gibney. - First edition. - 504 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-489) and index.
The Value of Law: More Than Just a Nuisance -- Jurisprudence: Making and Breaking Law -- Legal Education: The School as Scandal -- Legislatures: Outsourced Sausage-Making -- Bureaucrazy: Empire by Form -- Judges: Robots, Umpires, or Gods? -- Arbitration: Privatized Justice -- Legal Economics: Putting a Price on Priceless -- Prosecutors and Defenders: Angels of Vengeance and Mercy -- Police: The Thick Blue Line -- Proof: The Evidence for Evidence -- Remedies: How Many Wrongs Make a Right? -- Failing from the Top Down: Imperial Presidencies and Constitutional Erosion -- Conclusion: Proposals Modest and Otherwise.
0316475262 9780316475266
GBB960604 bnb
019345416 Uk
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
Law--United States.