Legal Commentary

A few times here at Prawfsblawg, the question of law schools' institutional character -- their "mission" -- has come up.  I've had a few posts, for example, on what John Garvey has been calling "institutional pluralism", and on the contributions that (I think) meaningfully religious law schools can make, precisely by being distinctive, to the academy and to the profession.  

The connection between study of and engagement with "big questions," on the one hand, and the social and institutional forms in which these activities take place, on the other, is (one of) the subject(s) of Alasdair MacIntyre's new book, "God, Philosophy, Universities:  A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition," which I am reading with a group of colleagues.  Check it out.  It's conversational and accessible, but also (I think) provocative and profound.