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Most Creative Moments in American Legal History

By propertyprof

Thanks to Mary Dudziak's always fabulous legalhistoryblog, I see that Robert Blomquist has an article up on ssrn about the most creative moments in American legal history.  Robert polled legal historians back in 2005 about our opinions on the most creative moments in American legal history.  Much, much fun. 

I'm pleasantly surprised to see that both Calvin and I made Robert's discussion of the responses he found "to be unusually insightful."  Perhaps that's a kind way of saying, uh, rather odd and outside of the mainstream!  Of course, perhaps that's what we want in a list of creative moments.  Reading through the paper, it strikes me that a lot of the responders find (perhaps no surprise here) that whatever they work on are among the most creative moments....  And perhaps that is as it should be--I'd be disinclined to work on something I found not creative.

The paper's well worth a read.  The list is pretty cool--well worth a look and fun for discussion for your friends.

Alfred Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).