TY - BOOK AU - Howard,Philip K. TI - Life without lawyers: liberating Americans from too much law SN - 9780393065664 (hardcover) AV - KF 384 H851l 2009 U1 - 349.73 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Litigious paranoia KW - United States KW - Reforma legal KW - Estados Unidos KW - Derecho N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218); The boundaries of law -- The freedom to take risks -- The authority to be fair -- The boundaries of lawsuits -- Bureaucracy can't teach -- The freedom to judge others -- Responsibility in Washington -- The freedom to make a difference N2 - A darkly humorous assessment of what the author identifies as a loss of freedom to make sense of daily choices in America cites such dilemmas as inane safety warnings and the growing powerlessness of business and educational leaders, in a call-to-action that argues for more empowering, common-sense boundaries of law ER -