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Oh, The Treatise!, Richard A. Danner Apr 2013

Oh, The Treatise!, Richard A. Danner

Michigan Law Review

In his foreword to the Michigan Law Review's 2009 Survey of Books Related to the Law, my former Duke colleague Erwin Chemerinsky posed the question: "[W]hy should law professors write?" In answering, Erwin took as a starting point the well-known criticisms of legal scholarship that Judge Harry Edwards published in this journal in 1992. Judge Edwards indicted legal scholars for failing to engage the practical problems facing lawyers and judges, writing instead for the benefit of scholars in law and other disciplines rather than for their professional audiences. He characterized "practical" legal scholarship as both prescriptive (aiming to instruct attorneys, …


Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller May 1995

Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis


Law And Letters In American Culture, Lee W. Brooks Apr 1986

Law And Letters In American Culture, Lee W. Brooks

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Letters in American Culture by Robert A. Ferguson


The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The New Deal Lawyers by Peter H. Irons


Professionalism And The Chains Of Slavery, Redmond J. Barnett Mar 1979

Professionalism And The Chains Of Slavery, Redmond J. Barnett

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process by Robert M. Cover and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher