Outlaw: How We Can All Live Better without the Law

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C. L. Skach always believed in the strength of the law she spent her career in some of the most complex corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions, trying to create order where it did not exist. But, as she sat alone in a shaking tent in Baghdad after her camp was hit with a 240mm rocket, she admitted to herself what shed been denying for years: stable order was an illusion, and laws while intended to help often only made things worse. Drawing on her own research, teaching and fieldwork in democratic theory and practice over the past three decades, Skach exposes both the seriousness of the challenges to democracy we face, and a solution to them that is profoundly within our reach. She proposes six ideas across six areas we should care about most leadership, public education, race and immigration, the environment, community and fundamental rights and shows us how we can take steps in each of these areas to be better, truer citizens. Skach argues that now as we bear witness to failing governments, the corruption of constitutions and the continual decline of democracy across the world is the time to move outside of our inadequate box of laws and rules and leadership, and instead make democracy work a different way. One citizen at a time.

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C.L. SKACH is Professor of Political and Legal Theory at the University of Bologna. She was previously Professor of Constitutional Law at King's College London; the Professor of Comparative Government and Law at the University of Oxford, and prior to that, Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, where she was also affiliated and taught in the Harvard Law School. She has conducted research on six continents, held visiting professorships or fellowships in five countries, and has had her research published in seven languages. She lives in Oxford, England. Outlaw is her first trade book.