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Legal Intellectuals in Conversation

Reflections on the Construction of Contemporary American Legal Theory
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In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers toenter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed theway we understand and use theory in law today. True to the title of the book,Hackney spent hours in conversation with legal intellectuals, interviewing themabout their early lives as thinkers and scholars, their contributions toAmerican legal theory, and their thoughts regarding some fundamentaltheoretical questions in legal academe, particularly the law/politics debate. LegalIntellectuals in Conversation is a veritable "Who'sWho" of legal thought, presented in a sophisticated yetintimate manner.
1 Critical Legal Studies: Duncan Kennedy 2 Law and Economics: Richard Posner 3 Legal History: Morton Horwitz 4 Law and Society: Austin Sarat 5 Critical Race Theory/Law and Literature: Patricia Williams 6 Feminist Legal Theory: Catharine MacKinnon 7 Postmodern Legal Theory: Drucilla Cornell 8 Contemporary Liberal Constitutional Theory: Bruce Ackerman 9 Classical Liberal Constitutional Theory: Charles Fried 10 Law and Philosophy: Jules Coleman Index About the Author
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