Saving the Constitution from Lawyers Spitzer Hardback Cambridge University Press

Saving the Constitution from LawyersHow Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning\nAuthor(s): Robert J. Spitzer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521896962, 978-0521896962\nSynopsis\nThis book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one-sided arguments collide to produce a just outcome. But when applied to constitutional theorizing, the result is selective analysis, overheated rhetoric, distorted facts, and overstated conclusions. Such wayward theorizing finds its way into print in the nation's over 600 law journals professional publications run by law students, not faculty or other professionals and peer review is almost never used to evaluate worthiness. The consequences of this system are examined through three timely .