TY - BOOK AU - Gibney,Bruce TI - Nonsense factory: the making and breaking of the American legal system SN - 0316475262 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Hachette Books KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - United States KW - Law N1 - 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 ER -