Name: 【TED】Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system (Philip Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system)
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the relationship of formal structures and human behavior.

If you build a wide road out to the outskirts of town, people will move there.

is the need to overhaul and simplify the law

to address the challenges of our society.

You might have noticed that law has grown

progressively denser in your lives over the last decade or two.

If you run a business, it's hard to do much of anything

where the general counsels are becoming the CEOs.

It's a little bit like the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.

But it's not just business that's affected by this,

it's actually pressed down into the daily activities

A couple of years ago I was hiking near Cody, Wyoming.

although no one told me that before we went.

And our guide was a local science teacher.

She was wholly unconcerned about the bears,

She'd just been involved in an episode where a parent

because she lowered the grade of the student by 10 percent

The principal didn't want to stand up to the parent

because he didn't want to get dragged into some legal proceedings.

So, she had to go to meeting after meeting, same arguments made

After 30 days of sleepless nights, she finally capitulated

She said, "Life's too short, I just can't keep going with this."

About the same time, she was going to take two students to a leadership conference

in Laramie, which is a couple of hours away,

and she was going to drive them in her car,

but the school said, "No, you can't drive them in the car

So, they provided a bus that held 60 people

and drove the three of them back and forth

But he was told he couldn't go on the hike this year

because one of the students in the class was disabled,

so the other 25 students didn't get to go on the hike either.

At the end of this day I could have filled a book

Now, we've been taught to believe that law

But somehow or another, in the last couple of decades,

the land of the free has become a legal minefield.

and yet, when you pull back, you see it all the time.

It's changed the way we talk. I was talking to a

"Well you know, I don't deal with patients the same way anymore.

You wouldn't want to say something off-the-cuff

This is a doctor, whose life is caring for people.

bulging with hidden motives and innuendo,

Now for 20 years, tort reformers have been sounding the alarm

in the District of Columbia who sued his dry cleaners for 54 million dollars

The case went on for two years; I think he's still appealing the case.

are relatively rare. They don't usually win.

which is twice as much as in other countries

But the direct costs are really only the tip of the iceberg.

We certainly don't want to give up the rights,

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