University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
Legal Scholarship as Resistance to 'Science'
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San Diego L. Rev. (Forthcoming)
Abstract
Why do law professors continue to produce scholarship even after achieving tenure? This essay, presented as part of a AALS panel discussing “Why We Write?”, considers some common and less common responses, and suggests that for at least a few professors, legal scholarship can serve as a way of resisting the overbearing dominance of the “scientific” worldview evident in so much modern thought in favor of a perspective more attentive to the value of persons.
Subject Area
General Law, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Public Law and Legal Theory
Recommended Citation
Steven D. Smith,
"Legal Scholarship as Resistance to 'Science'"
(June 2005).
University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series.
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series.
Working Paper 32.
http://law.bepress.com/sandiegolwps/pllt/art32
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