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Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review
Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice by Samuel Walker
Two Modes Of Legal Thought, George P. Fletcher
Two Modes Of Legal Thought, George P. Fletcher
Faculty Scholarship
We should begin with a confession of ignorance. We have no jurisprudence of legal scholarship. Scholars expatiate at length on the work of other actors in the legal culture – legislators, judges, prosecutors, and even practicing lawyers. Yet we reflect little about what we are doing when we write about the law. We have a journal about the craft of teaching, but none about the craft of scholarship.
In view of our ignorance, we should pay particular heed to our point of departure. I start with the observation that legal scholarship expresses itself in a variety of verbal forms. Descriptive …