Among the mysteries of our time is the role of law professors in shaping public debate. Cultures need priests, even secular priests. That’s true even if the vast majority of what passes for legal scholarship isn’t fit for consumption by serious scholars in the social sciences or humanities. But academics of all stripes must publish or perish, so year in and year out these academics trot out their legal “theories,” few of which rise to the level of interesting casuistry.
This is particularly true of the Yale Law School, where the cream of this dwarfed crop of intellectuals competes for the Mirror on the Wall Award. What’s that? “Mirror, mirror on the all, who is the most arcane of them all. Erudite, polished and so profound. Who wears the mantle of Roscoe Pound?” (I know, I know, Pound was a Harvard man.)
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