Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal CultureUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2006 M08 8 - 447 páginas 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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Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
The Enlargement and Withdrawal of the Legal World | 9 |
Learning from Lawyer Jokes | 15 |
Lies and Stratagems The Corruption of Discourse | 31 |
Workers in the Mills of Deceit | 36 |
Eloquence Persuasiveness Resourcefulness | 40 |
Lawyer Talk as Fakery and Bombast | 47 |
Masters of Stratagem | 50 |
Betrayers of Trust | 157 |
The Betrayal Joke Cluster | 160 |
Betrayal as Virtue | 166 |
What Do the Jokes Tell Us? | 171 |
An Excess of Loyalty? | 177 |
The Lawyer as Morally Deficient | 179 |
Looking Out for Number One | 184 |
No Redeeming Social Value | 186 |
The Lawyer Outsmarted | 55 |
The Ascendency of Lawyer Talk | 61 |
The Lawyer as Economic Predator | 64 |
Taking It All | 66 |
A Prodigious Predator | 70 |
Fee Simple | 76 |
Throwing the Meter | 80 |
Predation as Sex Sex as Predation | 86 |
The Justice Tariff | 94 |
Playmates of the Devil | 97 |
Headed for Hell | 101 |
Absent in Heaven | 105 |
A Kingdom of This World | 108 |
Conflict Lawyers as Fomenters of Strife | 114 |
Promoters of Conflict | 118 |
The Conniving Claimant | 120 |
Litigation Fever | 130 |
The Lawyer as Heroic Champion | 138 |
The Demography of the World of Lawyer Jokes | 142 |
Women in Combat | 144 |
Jews and Other Outsiders | 148 |
Seniors and Juniors | 152 |
He Just Doesnt Get It | 190 |
In the Laboratory | 192 |
Lawyers as Objects of Scorn | 196 |
Sounding the Depths | 199 |
Into the Slime | 202 |
The Anal Connection | 204 |
The Uses of Scorn | 207 |
A Good Start Death Wish Jokes | 210 |
The Contemporary Onslaught | 213 |
Lets Kill All the Lawyers | 215 |
A Pestilent1al Affliction | 219 |
The 70 Percent Legend | 223 |
Why Death Wish Jokes Flourish | 226 |
Enemies of Justice | 233 |
The Lawyer as Enemy of Justice | 236 |
What Does Law Deliver? | 240 |
Only in America? | 249 |
Register of Jokes | 263 |
Notes | 275 |
References | 357 |
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