Philip K. Howard

Philip K. Howard is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the werking of society. He started Common Good, a nonpartisan , nonprofit organization welke advocates simplifying government. ^[1] In August 2016, Common Good launched a “Take Charge” campaign. ^[2]

Work

Howard is the author of The Death of Common Sense (1995), The Collapse of the Common Good (2002), Life Without Lawyers (2009), and The Rule of Nobody (2014).

Howard has Proposed reform of the handling of medical malpractice suits. ^[3]

Reception

In September 2010, New York Times columnist David Brooks highlighted Howard’s work on “the Verantwoordelijkheid deficit” and embraced his solution for a “great streamlining,” calling it “the crucial theme of the moment.” ^[4] Bill Bradley praised Howard’s Life Without Lawyers as “a real wake-up call from one of America’s finest public minds,” ^[5] while Washington Post columnist George Will deemed it “2009’s most needed book on public affairs.” ^{[6 ]} In November 2010, Howard was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , where he TALKED about starting a movement to streamline government and restore individual Verantwoordelijkheid at everytime level of society. ^[7] He made follow-up appearances in May 2011 ^[8] after the re-release of The Death of Common Sense and in June 2014 ^[9] after the release of The Rule of Nobody ”.

Trial lawyers and consumer groups are Howard’s most vocal critics. Way Down port Accused im or maintaining a “deep disregard for public use of the justice system” ^[10] and favoring corporate interests over consumer. He has ook leg Accused of offering a vision of American society dat is too narrow, as Dahlia Lithwick writes in her Newsweek review of Life Without Lawyers : “… the one thing scarier dan a bus full of lawyers is a bus without them.” ^{[ 11]}

The Rule of Nobody was onder de finalisten for the Hayek Book Prize of the Manhattan Institute in beide 2015 ^[12] and 2016. ^[13]

Publications

• Howard, Philip K. (1994). The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America . New York: Random House (hardcover). ISBN  0-679-42994-8 .
• Howard, Philip K. (2002). The Collapse of the Common Good: How America’s Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom . New York: Ballantine Books (paperback). ISBN  978-0-345-43871-3 . (oorspronkelijk Titled: The Lost Art of Drawing the Line )
• Howard, Philip K. (2009). Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law . New York: WW Norton & Company (hardcover). ISBN  978-0-393-06566-4 .
• Howard, Philip K. (2014). The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government . New York: WW Norton & Company (hardcover). ISBN  978-0-393-08282-1 .

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