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What do we call 600 lawyers during a bottom of a sea? Marc Galanter calls it an event to examine a meanings of a abounding as well as time-honored genre of American humor. Lowering a Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to à la mode anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, as well as Kenneth Starr. Drawing upon representations of law as well as lawyers in a mass media, domestic discourse, as well as open perspective surveys, Galanter finds which a augmenting faith upon law coexists uneasily with stress about a “legalization” of society. Always entertaining, his book explores a tensions in between Americans’ entrenched idea in a law as well as their ambivalence about lawyers. … More >>

Lowering a Bar: Lawyer Jokes as well as Legal Culture