. >> now on book tv, walter olson. migrating to the status of national policy. it takes place at the heritage foundation and runs about an hour. >> what is taught in law schools in one generation will be widely believed by the bar in the following generation. one great law professor. he might have added that it will also because it is widely believed by the bar it will wind up being believed by one of the public. this was not a new story. i have written several books about the litigiousness of our legal system. in more cases than not that can be traced back to academic origins. if you have a beef with the tort system, for example, and the united states you should take it up with the berkeley. if you think it is less than ideal your problem is with professor catherine mackinnon, so it is with class action law the civil procedure, employment law, and many others. and this can be traced big and small but telling a story and the excuse factory, workplace law of the then novel idea that the law ought to come back. for those of you who are not, it is the tight of impr

[applause] >> for more information visit walter olson's web site, overlawyered.com. >> and the core issue, just to kind of pan out a little bit, is how do you get young people into the work force. and in this case, specifically, into the white collar work force. how do you move students especially from psych 101 classrooms to a building like this into the office jobs where they will probably be in our service economy? what is that process, what's the best way to do that, what's the most humane way to do that, and what's the way that insures the sort of highest level of social justice that's possible in terms of making that an equitable process? and i, essentially, find this current very haphazard, unregulated free-for-all system of internships that's grown up to be inadequate, to sort of fail our tests of what would be a rational, humane and even efficient way of getting people from point a to point b. just to kind of see it on a very macro level. but anyway, a potted history. so internships originate, the term intern originally from french, probably for several hundred years used in kind

[applause] >> for more information visit walter olson's website, overlawyered.com. >> doctor, the titleof your book is in the middle and on edge, and the press as you mentioned has always been on the middle and on the edge of different parts of idaho's civilization. what do you mean by that? >> it is okay between what is present-day pocatello and boise. and those areas had a larger any population at the beginning. and so we're almost exactly in the middle there. and what i really argue in my book is that twin falls is in the middle, is between two canyons which is the snake river canyon and i every candidate but is also in the middle between boise and pocatello. if one looks to the south, it's in the middle between northern nevada, a lot of northern nevada people come to twin falls for shopping and so forth. and the sun valley early. and, of course, everybody loves to be in the middle but it's not always fun to be on the edge. and argue that the fact that twin falls has been on the edge a number of different instances, has made people in twin falls more defensive than they might be. and

[applause] >> for more information visit walter olson's web site, overlawyering.com. dr.entry, the title of your book is in the middle and on the edge and the process you mentioned, how twin falls has always been on the middle and on the edge of different parts of idaho civilization. what you mean by that? >> well, twin falls is located between present though -- present-day pocatello lacy and those areas had a larger indian population in the beginning. so we are almost exactly in the middle there. and what i've really argue in my book is twin falls is in the middle. it is between two canyons which is easy to see. but it is also in the middle of between boise and pocatello. if one looks to the south it is in the middle, basically northern nevada. and the sun valley. of course everybody loves to be in the middle. it is not always fun to be on the edge and i argue that the fact that twin falls has been on the edge in a number of different instances has made people in twin falls more defensive than they might be, and they think really it is crucial in understanding our histor

. >> now on booktv, walter olson arguing that poor policy ideas born in law schools migrated to the statusof national policy. the discussion takes place at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. and runs about an hour. >> what is taught in the law schools in one generation will be widely believed by the bar in the following generation said one great law professor, and he might have added that it will also because it is widely believed by the bar that winds up being believed by much of the press and public. this was not a new story to me. i've written several books about the legal system and in more cases than not, that can be traced back to academic origins. if you have a beef with the system, for example, in the united states, you should take it up with the dean crosser of berkeley. if you think that our system of sexual harassment law is less than ideal, you're problem is with professor katharine mchien and so it is with class action law and many, many others, and this can be traced big and small. i tell a study in the book about workplace law of the then novel idea that the law oug