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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: How Legal Reformers Accidentally Broke America

Contributor(s): Bagley, Nicholas (Author)

ISBN: 9781324106296

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Pub Date: December 1, 2026

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.00" H x 0.00" L x 0.00" W ( 0.00 lbs) 256 pages

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Description: A provocative account of how our legal culture is holding us hostage--and what we need to do to change it.

Brief description: Nicholas Bagley is a law professor at the University of Michigan. A nationally recognized expert on regulation and health care, he has also served as Governor Gretchen Whitmer's chief legal counsel. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Review Quotes: We're used to thinking about the law and lawyers as mechanisms for government. Nicholas Bagley shows how, in the real world, they can do the opposite. Yet Bagley provides some reason for optimism--that maybe, just maybe, we can have nice things after all.--Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and New York Times-best-selling author of Lawless

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