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Monday, May 21, 2012

How Corrupted Language Moved from Campus to the Real World


Over the past dozen years, my main areas of law practice have resulted in two books: The Shadow University (co-authored with Alan Charles Kors), which discusses the deprivations of liberty and related absurdities on American campuses, and Three Felonies a Day, which recounts how vague statutes have made everyone a potential target of federal prosecutors. What connects these seemingly disparate phenomena? As I explain in this Minding the Campus blog entry, "the respective cultures of the college campus and of the federal government have each thrived on the notion that language is meant not to express one's true thoughts, intentions and expectations, but, instead, to cover them up." Rules and regulations-both on campus and in the real world have been expressed in language that no one can really understand. As a result, students and citizens have, with increasing frequency, inadvertently run afoul of the rules and have suffered for it.

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