Philip K. Howard, a lawyer, advises leaders of both parties on legal and regulatory reform. He is chair of Common Good and a contributor to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Philip K. Howard is a well-known leader of government and legal reform in America. His new book, The Rule of Nobody (W. W. Norton & Company, April 2014), has been praised by Fareed Zakaria as “an utterly compelling and persuasive book that, if followed, could change the way America works.” His TED Talk has been viewed by almost 500,000 people.
Philip is also the author of the best-seller The Death of Common Sense (Random House, 1995), The Collapse of the Common Good (Ballantine Books, 2002) and Life Without Lawyers (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009).
Books in order of publication:
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. New York: Random House (hardcover). (1995)
The Collapse of the Common Good: How America’s Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom. New York: Ballantine Books – 2002
Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law. New York: W. W. Norton & Company (hardcover). – 2009
The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government. New York: W. W. Norton & Company – 2014
Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left. New York: W. W. Norton & Company (hardcover). – 2019
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