Deborah Pearlstein — Losing the Law: How Legal Polarization Threatens American Democracy — at Conn Ave

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A gripping account of how the distinction between law and politics is collapsing in the United States and imperiling democracy itself. The norms that have separated law from politics in America are eroding, making democratic constitutional government increasingly hard to sustain. Losing the Law tells the story of how we came to this precarious moment. This trenchant, persuasively argued book describes how a decades long revolution in both professional culture and legal thought is fueling the nation's slide into strongman rule. It also offers essential guidance on what we can do to change course, not just by crafting institutional reforms but by resetting professional incentives and reinvigorating popular belief in the necessity of the rule of law in constitutional gove…

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