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A Fan's Life

The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat

By: Paul Campos

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A Fan's Life

The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat

By: Paul Campos

Sports fandom is defined by obsession, irrationality, and a love of rabbit holes. But in 2020, most professional sports had few games and no fans present. This led lawyer and University of Michigan superfan Paul Campos to ponder the ways that fandom is conditioned by social circumstance and collective psychology. In limning the structural unhappiness of a fan's life, he found deep and resonant political and personal meanings to loving a sports team-some obvious, others revealed only over time. Campos's own lifelong obsessions help him index fandom-related manias and provides an entry point to grasping their history, nature, and surprisingly broad import"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823482

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9780226823485

Against the Law

By: Paul F. Campos,Pierre Schlag,Steven Douglas Smith

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Against the Law

By: Paul F. Campos,Pierre Schlag,Steven Douglas Smith

A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. Unorthodox, irreverent, and provocative, Against the Law demonstrates that for many in the legal community, law has become a kind of substitute religion--an essentially idolatrous practice composed of systematic self-misrepresentation and self-deception. Linked by a persistent inquiry into the nature and identity of "the law," these essays are informed by the conviction that the conventional representations of law, both in law schools and the courts, cannot be taken at face value--that the law, as commonly conceived, makes no sense. The authors argue that the relentlessly normative prescriptions of American legal thinkers are frequently futile and, indeed, often pernicious. They also argue that the failure to recognize the role that authorship must play in the production of legal thought plagues both the teaching and the practice of American law. Ranging from the institutional to the psychological and metaphysical deficiencies of the American legal system, the depth of criticism offered by Against the Law is unprecedented. In a departure from the nearly universal legitimating and reformist tendencies of American legal thought, this book will be of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists. More particularly, it will engage all the American lawyers who suspect that there is something very wrong with the nature and direction of their profession, law students who anticipate becoming part of that profession, and those readers concerned with the status of the American legal system.

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292

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Duke University Press

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0822318415

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9780822318415

The Obesity Myth

Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health

By: Paul F. Campos

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The Obesity Myth

Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health

By: Paul F. Campos

An exploration of America's self-defeating war on obesity argues against the myth that falsely equates thinness with health and explains why dieting is bad for the health and how the media misinform the public.

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332

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Penguin

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1592400663

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9781592400669

Jurismania

The Madness of American Law

By: Paul F. Campos

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Jurismania

The Madness of American Law

By: Paul F. Campos

In Jurismania, Paul Campos asserts that our legal system is beginning to exhibit symptoms of serious mental illness. Trials and appeals that stretch out for years and cost millions, 100 page appellate court opinions, 1,000 page statutes before which even lawyers tremble with fear, and a public that grows more litigious every day all testify to a judicial overkill that borders on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Campos locates the source of such madness, paradoxically, in our worship of reason and the resulting belief that all problems are amenable to legal solutions. In insightful discussions of a wide range of cases, from NCAA regulations of student-athletes to the Simpson trial, from our most intractable social disputes over abortion and physician-assisted suicide to the war on drugs and the increasingly fastidious attempts to regulate behavior in public spaces, Campos shows that the mania for more law exacerbates the very problems it seeks to remedy. In his final chapter, the author calls instead for a humbling recognition of the limits of reason and a much more modest role for our legal system. Clearly written and laced with a delicious wit, Jurismania gives us a CAT-scan of the American legal mind at work. It reveals not only that the patient is even worse off than we imagined, but also clarifies the many reasons why.

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209

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Oxford University Press

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0195351371

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9780195351378

Don't Go to Law School (unless)

A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

By: Paul F. Campos

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Don't Go to Law School (unless)

A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk

By: Paul F. Campos

Going to law school has become a very expensive and increasingly risky gamble. When is it still worth it? Law professor Paul Campos answers that question in this book, which gives prospective law students, their families, and current law students the tools they need to make a smart decision about applying to, enrolling in, and remaining in law school. Campos explains how the law school game is won and lost, from the perspective of an insider who has become the most prominent and widely cited critic of the deceptive tactics law schools use to convince the large majority of law students to pay far more for their law degrees than those degrees are worth.DON'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL (UNLESS) reveals which law schools are still worth attending, at what price, and what sorts of legal careers it makes sense to pursue today. It outlines the various economic and psychological traps law students and new lawyers fall into, and how to avoid them. This book is a must-read if you or someone you care about is considering law school, or wondering whether to stay enrolled in one now.

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1480163686

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9781480163683

Against the Law

By: Paul F. Campos,Pierre Schlag,Steven Douglas Smith

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Against the Law

By: Paul F. Campos,Pierre Schlag,Steven Douglas Smith

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Duke University Press

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Book's by Paul F. Campos

A Fan's Life

A Fan's Life

Against the Law

Against the Law

The Obesity Myth

The Obesity Myth

Jurismania

Jurismania

Don't Go to Law School (unless)

Don't Go to Law School (unless)

Against the Law

Against the Law

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