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	Accidentally, on Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America By Ken Dornstein Well-reported, colorful account of the history and current state of accident fraud, in which dishonest lawyers play a crucial role.  (review)
	Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort Law By Jeffrey P. O'Connell and Peter Alan Bell Two law professors, one critical of the current state of tort law and one supportive, join forces to produce a uniquely balanced treatment of the subject.
	No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times By Dorothy Rabinowitz By the Pulitzer-winning WSJ columnist whose caustic articles freed many victims of abuse hysteria and out-of-control prosecution.
	Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences By Peter W. Huber The original, seminal account of American tort law's failure to achieve its goals of a safer world, accident compensation and basic fairness.   A devastating critique of virtually every modern development from the demise of contractual disclaimers to the invention of market-share liability to the erosion of statutes of limitation.
	Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption and Incompetence on the Bench By Max Boot Judges duck for cover as the outspoken Wall Street Journal editorialist aims darts at the many who suffer from "gavelitis".
	Heterophobia : Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism By Daphne Patai The first book-length critique of sexual harassment law, by the co-author of Professing Feminism.
	For Your Own Good : The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health By Jacob Sullum "I'd walk a mile for this book," writes the great Florence King.  What more endorsement could anyone want?
	Whiplash!: America's Most Frivolous Lawsuits By James Percelay and Jeremy Deutchman We haven't had a chance to review this one, but it sounds like a natural for Overlawyered readers.
	Buy This Book...or We'll Sue You!: Outrageous Lawsuits, Outlandish Settlements By Attila Benko and Laura B. Benko We haven't had a chance to review this one, but it sounds like a natural for Overlawyered readers.

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