How Elite Law Schools Are Undermining America with Walter Olson

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Walter Olson on Wednesday, September 2 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET.

When lawsuits become weapons and law schools become factories for bad ideas, what happens to justice and the rule of law itself?

That's the territory Walter Olson has spent his career mapping and joins Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman as part of our mini-series on tort reform to discuss. Olson is a senior fellow at Cato and author of several books about the U.S. legal system, including The Litigation Explosion, The Rule of Lawyers, and Schools for Misrule. His first book, The Litigation Explosion, was one of the most widely discussed general-audience books on law of its time, leading the Washington Post to dub him “intellectual guru of tort reform.” He followed it with The Rule of Lawyers, on mass litigation, and most recently Schools for Misrule, which traces how the ideas taught in elite law schools in one generation often shape national policy in the next—from class-action lawsuits to court takeovers of school funding. Beyond his books, Olson is known as the founder and principal writer of Overlawyered.com, one of the oldest blogs on law, and Investor's Business Daily has called him “perhaps America's leading authority on over-litigation.”

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