I’m no lawyer, but I have been reading and studying “Chicago School” legal scholarship for more than thirty years in such publications as Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies. It is the home of the law and economics movement, and of famous law and economics scholars Ronald Coase, Richard Posner, Sam Peltzman, and many others. Chicago is one of the preeminent law schools in the land, and its legal scholars are world famous for their voluminous published research.
As an academic, I would assume that one would have to have a very long paper trail of very high quality legal scholarship to earn tenure at Chicago law school as Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, did. But all the news reports say that there is virtually no paper trail at all. How can this be, if she is The Second Most Brilliant Woman on the Planet Next to Hillary Clinton, as the leftist media lapdogs have been describing her?
6:37 am on May 11, 2010
