Thanks to Eugene for inviting me to participate in the Volokh Conspiracy's venerable tradition of the author's weeklong guest-blog. I'm particularly excited for the opportunity not only to preview my new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites, but to dispel some Ilya Confusion. Then again, it may also make Ilya Confusion harder to discern, because the most common way I recognize interlocutors who are thinking of "the other Ilya" (Somin) is when they reference my blogging on this site. Well, now we're both VC bloggers.
In any event, my new book Lawless uses my "lived experience"—what one friend called "the Troubles"—as a jumping-off point for diving into the illiberal takeover of law schools and the legal profession. It discusses failures in (1) bureaucracy, (2) ideology, and (3) leadership, and (4) proposes reforms. My remaining posts will cover each of those numbered items.
