The nonsense factory: the making and breaking of the American legal system

Preface: The exception is the rule

The value of law : more than just a nuisance

Jurisprudence : making and breaking law

Legal education : the school as scandal

Legislatures : outsourced sausage-making

Bureaucracy : 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

Appendix: A binding illustration of why people hate the law.