Roberta Kagan (2)

The author makes a compelling case on the negative impact of our hypertrophied legal system. Others had made the same observation, but Kagan offers a convincing explanation for how we got into this situation: "a political culture that expects and demands comprehensive governmental protections from serious harm, injustice, and environmental dangers -- and hence a powerful, activist government -- and, second, a set of governmental structures that reflect mistrust of concentrated power and hence that limit and fragment political and governmental authority." Sorry kids, we can't have it both ways. Our stop gap has been to devolve responsibility for social action onto private suits, but at great costs of efficiency and reasonableness. Outlook: bleak.… (más)