Laying Down the Law – Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind Schlag

Laying Down the LawMysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind\nAuthor(s): Pierre Schlag\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814780541, 978-0814780541\nSynopsis\nIn the collected essays here, Schlag established himself as one of the most creative thinkers in the contemporary legal academy. To read them one after another is exhilarating; Schlag's sophistication shines through. In chapter after chapter he tackles the most vexing problems of law and legal thinking, but at the heart of his concern is the questions of normativity and the normative claims made by legal scholars. He revisits legal realism, eenergizes it, and brings readers face-to-face with the central issues confronting law at the end of the 20th century.\n --Choice, May 1997\nPierre Schlag is the great iconoclast of the American legal academy. Few law professors today are so consistently original, funny, and provocative. But behind.