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It’s one of the great conspiracies of graduate education, and law school is no exception. Evil textbook publishers hire your professors to write their texts, and why you ask? Built- in readership of course! Given your average professor’s love of pontification, you couldn’t honestly believe that they would subjugate their egos and assign a text written by (gasp) somebody else.

And let’s not ignore royalties. I shuddered every time I had to pry the ol’ Visa out of my wallet to plunk down a colossal sum for a book whose contents would only be relevant to my life for the extent of the given semester. And every time I had to go through that experience, a fraction of that proverbial pound of flesh went into some prof’s pocket.

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