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Summary: A TEXT BOOK ABOUT NORMATIVISM AGAINST NATURAL PRINCIPLES
Review: This is food for thought, not only for law students, lawyers and practitioners but also for the common citizen. In particular, for all those that get lost in the ill conceived red tape of mother bureaucracy, get stuck in fragmentary and nonsensical regulations. Not only the author provides enough examples of organizational lunacy, due to excess of formalism or elaborate distorsions of clear legal texts and principles, but also gives some insights about possible solutions to the problem of the excessive weight of rules and procedures so precise that no one has the chance to think for himself or find a solution to a problem applying common principles.
As Howard points out: "The sunlight of common sense shines high above us whenever principles control: What is right and reasonable, not the parsing of the legal language, dominates the discussion.With the goal shining always before us, the need for lawyers fades along with the receding legal shadows. People understand what is expected from them."
This is a provocative book written by somebody that has been a practicing lawyer as well as a teacher. These two hats permit the author to better size up the frustrations and limitations that paperwork and stupid regulations inflict upon the citizens.
It should be required reading for law students.
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Summary: What happened to our country?
Review: Wow...this book is an amazing testimony to what is wrong with the relationships we have as Americans. Long have people lamented the lack of responsibility taken by people in this country...now it is clear that this is a systemic problem as well. The nation's bureaucracy is designed to give responsibility to no one.The only letdown in this book was the lack of solutions out of the mess. Throughout, I was challenging myself to find a way - any way - to bring the country out of it's rights craze and back to sanity, yet I was unable to think of a plausible solution. I would like to see more in the way of solutions from the author. Every political science student, every elected politician, and every bureaucrat should read this book...
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Summary: Scary stuff!
Review: You must read this book especially in this post 9/11 time. The Patriot Act and other laws like are dangerous in the hands of those power hungery madmen in the Federal Government, and if you don't believe me then you need to read this book.
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