Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

by Nancy MacLean

He looked to transform the legal profession “wholesale” rather than “retail.” Instead of turning out individual mentees, Manne planned to alter the way the law was understood and taught by luring existing leaders in the legal academy, from institutions including Harvard and Columbia—eventually more than six hundred of them—to his two-week summer institutes. As the guests went back to their institutions (and he always made sure to take a minimum of two from any given law school so they could back each other and not give in), they would push their skeptical colleagues to be more open to hiring faculty in the field of law and economics, particularly when the new colleagues came at little or no cost because the funds for them were provided by the Olin Foundation or its imitators.