LAWPROF BLOGGER TOM SMITH reviews Walter Olson’s new book, Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia And An Overlawyered America. “Walter Olson thinks that American law schools are the origin of some very bad ideas, in something like the way bats are said to be the reservoir of certain nasty viruses in Africa: the germs of pernicious concepts incubate there in relative obscurity between epidemics, erupting occasionally to spread destruction and misery. Sadly, Olson is not entirely wrong.”