Apr 16, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37
Since time immemorial, philosophers, theologians, mathematicians, and members of the bar have been fascinated with the concept of cause and effect. Indeed, since at least the days of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, there has been an exhaustive attempt to...
Apr 1, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37
The American administrative state often looks like Hobbes’ Leviathan itself. It makes and changes law on a scale and with an inscrutability that are scarcely to be believed. Its agencies at times seem rigidly bureaucratic while at others cravenly partisan and...
Mar 28, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 37
Thomas Bulfinch was right. Relaxation from study can be, under the right circumstances, a form of study. But how can one provide the right circumstances in a law school curriculum? Law and Literature comes immediately to mind. Ideas are inherently fascinating...
