Too Much Legalization in the World?

In a wonderful article ("Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?") in the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Anthony Lewis reviews a new book Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law by Philip Howard. The review suggests that Howard's book discusses, amongst other things, the excesses of American tort law and the manner in which law has found its away into every aspect of daily life creating overlegalization in a range of spheres. While Indian tort law still has much distance to travel before similar excesses can be alleged, reading Lewis' review (and naturally the book!) does provide some interesting ancetodes through which we may be able to assess legalization in India in the years ahead.