The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System by Bruce Cannon Gibney
The legal system is a mess. It is also quite incestuous. It is mostly lawyers that set the rules. They are also the ones that adjudicate the rules in the legal system. Judges are appointed for life and are often out of touch with the people they are serving. The legal, judicial and government systems care a lot about precedent, whether or not the precedents make sense. Rights, like trial by jury are gradually eroded in favor of expediency (like plea bargains and arbitration.) Regulation has become extremely complex. Even the parts of government that enforces regulation has no ideas how many rules there are to enforce.
The author is upset at the mess that is the legal system today. He has some general ideas for improvements, but it seems to just touch the surface. The legal system has become a big mess.
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