Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

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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.
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 coexists uneasily with anxiety about the
legalization
of society. Always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between American’s deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.