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Orin Kerr's Top Book Recommendations

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Failing Law Schools

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisers, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing facade, law schools are failing abjectly. Recent front-page stories have detailed widespread dubious practices, including false reporting of LSAT and GPA scores, misleading placement reports, and the fundamental failure to prepare graduates to enter the profession.

Addressing all...
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Recommended by Orin Kerr, and 1 others.

Orin KerrBrian Tamanaha made a lot of law profs unhappy with his 2012 book "Failing Law Schools." But seven years later, it's still a great read and comes off as prophetic. https://t.co/KNY51nDLl9 https://t.co/IfehoEikRS (Source)

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This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.

Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you’re successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?

Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch answers all these questions. He shows that from our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a “happiness curve,” declining from the optimism of youth into what’s often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our...
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Recommended by Chip Conley, Orin Kerr, and 2 others.

Chip Conley[Has] become a favorite to gift. (Source)

Orin KerrJust ordered @jon_rauch's new book, "The Happiness Curve." Rauch is one of my favorite writers. Great voice, always thoughtful, always independent, always clear. Excerpt available here: https://t.co/IW5JdXeW8l (Source)

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