Table of Contents

<new recto> Contents Tables and Illustrations 000 <LINE SPACE> I. Introduction 000 The Enlargement and Withdrawal of the Legal World 000 Learning from Lawyer Jokes 000 What is a joke? 000 What is a lawyer joke? 000 Lawyer's Jokes vs. Jokes About Lawyers 000 The Lawyer Joke Corpus 000 Recorded Jokes and Oral Transmission 000 "Switching" 000 Print media and the oral tradition 000 Representativeness 000 Tracing changes over time 000 Does the joke corpus tell us about the legal culture? 000 <LINE SPACE> Part One: The Enduring Core and Its Recent Accretions II. Lies and Strategems: The Corruption of Discourse 000 Lying and Dishonesty 000 Workers in the Mills of Deceit 000 Eloquence, Persuasiveness, Resourcefulness 000 Hot Air: Lawyer Talk as Fakery and Bombast 000 Masters of Stratagem 000 The Lawyer Outsmarted 000 The Ascendency of Lawyer Talk 000 <LINE SPACE> III. The Lawyer as Economic Predator 000 Only the Lawyer Wins 000 Taking it All 000 A Prodigious Predator 000 Fee Simple 000 Throwing the Meter 000 Sexploitation: Predation as Sex/Sex as Predation 000 The Justice Tariff 000 <LINE SPACE> IV. The Devil's Playmates The Devil's Own 000 Headed for Hell 000 Absent in Heaven 000 A Kingdom of This World 000 <LINE SPACE> V. The Conflict Cluster: Lawyers as Fomenters of Strife 000 Excess and Insufficient Combativeness 000 Promoters of Conflict 000 The Conniving Claimant 000 Litigation Fever 000 The Lawyer as Heroic Champion 000 <LINE SPACE> VI. The Demography of the World of Lawyer Jokes 000 The Hemispheric Prism 000 Women in Combat 000 Jews and Other Outsiders 000 Seniors and Juniors 000 <LINE SPACE> Part Two: The New Territories VII. Lawyers as Betrayers of Trust 000 Lawyers in a World of Declining Trust 000 The Betrayal Joke Cluster 000 Betrayal as Virtue 000 What Do the Jokes Tell Us? 000 An Excess of Loyalty? 000 <LINE SPACE> VIII. The Lawyer as Morally Deficient 000 A Suspect Profession 000 Looking Out for Number One 000 No Redeeming Social Value 000 "He Just Doesn't Get It" 000 In the Laboratory 000 <LINE SPACE> IX. Lawyers as Objects of Scorn 000 Closing the Circle of Scorn 000 Sounding the Depths 000 Into the Slime 000 The Anal Connection 000 The Uses of Scorn 000 <LINE SPACE> X. "A Good Start!" Death Wish Jokes 000 The Contemporary Onslaught 000 Let's Kill All the Lawyers 000 A Pestilential Affliction 000 The Seventy Percent Legend 000 Explaining the Flourishing of Death Wish Jokes 000 <LINE SPACE> Part Three: The Justice Implosion 000 XI. Enemies of Justice 000 Doing Justice 000 The Lawyer as Enemy of Justice 000 What Does Law Deliver? 000 <LINE SPACE> XII. Only in America? 000 <LINE SPACE> Appendix: Register of Jokes 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000