Subjects:

USA, Other Jurisdictions

Contents:

Introduction

Critical legal studies: an introduction to its origins and underpinnings

Introduction (Symposium on Frontiers of Legal Thought

Critical legal studies: a political history

Survey article: critical legal theory (without modifiers) in the United States.

Legal Scholarship in General: Post-realist legal scholarship

Legal scholarship: its causes and cure

Legal scholarship in the United States: an overview

Idols of the right: the law and economics' movement

Law, science, and law and economics

'Everything old is new again': early reflections on the 'new Chicago school'

The death of an author, by himself

Interdisciplinary legal scholarship: the case of history-in-law.

Constitutional Law Scholarship: Truth, justice and the American way: constitutional law scholarship in the 70s

The future of constitutional law scholarship. Pedagogy: Elite efforts to restrict the supply of lawyers: a comment on the Bok Report

Essay on clinical education

Evaluating students as preparation for the practice of law

An introduction (to Symposium: Academic Evaluation Focus)

Index.

This book collects Mark Tushnet's essays on legal scholarship and legal education written between the 1970s and the end of the twentieth century. The essays deal with the development of critical legal studies and its current state, with persistent questions about the intellectual status of legal scholarship, with interdisciplinary legal scholarship (including law and economics), and with selected topics in legal pedagogy.

Taken as a whole, the essays provide a good overview of Professor Tushnet's contributions to the intellectual history of legal scholarship and education in the United States.