| Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture Contributor(s): Galanter, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299213544 ISBN-13: 9780299213541 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor. "Lowering the Bar" analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law coexists uneasily with anxiety about the "legalization" of society. Always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Profession - Humor | Topic - Business & Professional - Law | Media & The Law |
| Dewey: 340.020 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 7.02" W x 10" (1.73 lbs) 448 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Jonathan Schofer offers the first theoretically framed examination of rabbinic ethics in several decades. Centering on one influential anthology, The Fathers according to Rabbi Nathan, Jonathan Schofer situates that text within a broader spectrum of rabbinic thought, while bringing rabbinic thought into dialogue with current scholarship on the self, ethics, theology, and the history of religions. |