Book: Lowering The Bar: Lawyer Jokes And Legal Culture 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.
Details of Book: Lowering The Bar: Lawyer Jokes And Legal Culture Book: Lowering The Bar: Lawyer Jokes And Legal Culture
Author: Marc Galanter
ISBN: 0299213544
ISBN-13: 9780299213541
, 978-0299213541
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2006/09/02
Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
Number of Pages: 429
Language: English