Among the many defining errors I’ve made along life’s way is my public and open scorn for law professors. Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach in a traditional discipline such as history, philosophy or even economics, teach law, I’ve said. I’ve been willfully blind to what scholars can contribute to a practitioner’s understanding of the law.
So I confess to having read Laurence Tribe’s most recent book on the Supreme Court, “Uncertain Justice,” with profit. Tribe, a Harvard law professor and longtime liberal favorite for appointment to the high court, writes about the court’s recent decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, and does what great lawyers do best: spots issues, trends and tendencies in the cases the court hears, and the decisions it has rendered.
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