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Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

ISBN13: 9780299213503
ISBN10: 0299213501
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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: lawyer jokes. 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 has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

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Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Centennial Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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ISBN:: 9780299213503
Subtitle:: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
Publisher:: University of Wisconsin Press
Author:: Galanter, Marc
Subject:: General
Subject:: Public opinion
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: Lawyers
Subject:: Legal Profession
Subject:: Media & the Law
Subject:: Topic - Business and Professional
Subject:: Popular Culture - General
Subject:: Lawyers -- United States.
Subject:: Lawyers -- United States -- Public opinion.
Edition Number:: 1
Edition Description:: 1
Publication Date:: 20050901
Binding:: Hardback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: 57 b/w illustrations
Pages:: 448
Dimensions:: 10 x 7 in

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