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.
Disciplines
Law | Legal Education | Legal Profession | Public Law and Legal Theory
Date of this Version
June 2005
Digital USD Citation
Smith, Steven D., "Legal Scholarship as Resistance to 'Science'" (2005). University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series. 32.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/lwps_public/art32
Comments
San Diego L. Rev. (Forthcoming)