What is poststructuralism? It has always struck me as odd that so many critical theorists are
reluctant to offer an answer to this question. In this essay, I unpack the term and provide a …

" Let us descend a little lower and consider one of those mysterious creatures who live, as it
were, off the leavings (d6jections) of the big city.... Here we have a man whose task is to …

Academic legal thought might be more concentratedly selfcritical than it usually is. We, its
producers, could and should learn to be more habitually reflective-about the social, cultural …

I was greatly honored to be asked to give the Dewey Lecture, and very happy to have an
occasion to revisit my old university. I entered the so-called" Hutchins College" in 1946, and …

" Alternatives to Originalism." What a title. Are there alternatives to originalism? The subject
conjures up the old exchange:" Do you believe in infant baptism? Hell yes, I've seen it done!" …

vYv change? This question has been central to the recent renaissance of pragmatism within
the legal academy. Not surprisingly, the scholars who have examined this question have …

After a good deal of thought I have decided not to respond directly to Professor Trubek's
exhaustive review of The Dialectics of Legal Repression, but will rather leave it to readers of …

When I think... of the law, I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux,
eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever-lengthening past,—figures too dim to …

Hermeneutics is the field of philosophy most concerned with investigating the nature of
understanding and interpretation. Hermeneutic philosophers usually engage in constructing …

Richard Posner's jeremiad is his third attack in recent months' on what he calls" moral
theory." 2 One of his earlier essays was a response to a lecture of mine, and I in turn …