Legal Research

Law & Creativity

Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law, by Robert F. Blomquist (Professor of Law/Swygert Research Fellow, Valparaiso University School
of Law): http://abajournal.com/files/100CreativeMoments.pdf
From the Abstract:

"In most cultural contexts creativity is viewed as an unalloyed virtue. Law is different: given the inherently conservative and slow-moving pace of legal evolution, innovation in the law is viewed by many observers as problematic. Yet American revolutionaries, constitutionalists, legislators, chief executives, judges, administrators, scholars and activists have creatively changed the law for over two centuries in mostly positive ways with some admittedly questionable innovations. This article makes a bold new proposal?the articulation and ranking of America?s most creative legal moments?designed to energize and clarify our synoptic thinking about the nature of legal creativity."

Source: beSpacific

Full post as published by LexLibris on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).