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Schlag vs. Posner

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

The Georgetown Law Journal has a couple of entertaining pieces, one by Pierre Schlag (a law professor and long-time critic of legal scholarship) and a response from Judge Richard Posner (one of the most prolific and influential legal scholars of all time). In addition to lambasting legal scholarship as "dead," Schlag disparages rankings of law schools: While for law schools and law professors, these rankings do create a certain anxiety, there is also an anxiety-relieving function served. Indeed, any doubts that we might have about the value of what law schools and legal thinkers do are eclipsed by our intense fixation on how good we are at doing it relative to each other. We don?t have to worry that the enterprise might be entirely worthless if we?re totally fixated on how well or how badly we are doing it relative to everybody else...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).