Volume 10, Number 5 · March 14, 1968
There Oughta Be a Law
By Ronald Dworkin
The Lawyers
by Martin Mayer
Harper & Row, 548 pp., $8.95
America is riddled with lawyers and obsessed with law. We have more lawyers per capita than any other nation, and sooner or later we package every important issue of policy, from war to ghetto economics and highway improvement, as an issue of law. We use our courts as temples of political science as well as of justice; our lawyers staff not only courts but legislatures, agencies, boards of directors, school boards, and college presidencies.
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