TY - JOUR AU - Goodrich, Peter AB - 07 Goodrich (jl/d) 1/2/00 3:25 pm Page 143 REVIEW ARTICLE LAW-INDUCED ANXIETY: LEGISTS, ANTI-LAWYERS AND THE BOREDOM OF LEGALITY PETER GOODRICH Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA PAUL F. CAMPOS, PIERRE SCHLAG AND STEVEN D. SMITH, Against the Law. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996, x + 277pp., $59.95 (hbk), $19.95 (pbk). PAUL CAMPOS, Jurismania: The Madness of American Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, xii + 198pp., £10.99 (pbk), £16.99 (hbk). DAVID SAUNDERS, Anti-Lawyers. Religion and the Critics of Law and State. London: Routledge, xii + 183pp., $85.00 (hbk). PIERRE SCHLAG, Laying Down the Law: Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind. New York: New York University Press. 1996, x + 195pp., $16.50 (pbk), $45.00 (hbk). PIERRE SCHLAG, The Enchantment of Reason. Durham, NC: Duke Uni- versity Press, 1998, 176pp., $49.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). A recent survey of empirical research into the mental health of American lawyers both begins and concludes with the unequivocal view that there is a crisis in the profession (Daicoff, 1997). Certainly the statistics presented from studies conducted over the past 25 years are forbidding. Using stan- dard indicators of clinical depression, levels of psychiatric distress amongst pre-law students were found to TI - Book Review: Law-Induced Anxiety: Legists, Anti-Lawyers and the Boredom of Legality JF - Social & Legal Studies: An International Journal DO - 10.1177/096466390000900107 DA - 2000-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-law-induced-anxiety-legists-anti-lawyers-and-the-boredom-9e30Fp6GeJ SP - 143 EP - 163 VL - 9 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -