Legal Scholarship as Resistance to "Science"

Authors

Steven D. SmithFollow

Library of Congress Authority File

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122466

Document Type

AALS

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.

Recommended Citation

Steven D. Smith, Legal Scholarship as Resistance to "Science", 41 San Diego L. Rev. 1775 (2004).
Available at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/sdlr/vol41/iss4/20