2005 Issue

By Kristina Brittenham Read the full text (PDF) Towards the end of my 2L year, I mentioned to a friend of mine that I was planning to turn a paper I wrote for a class into an article for publication. The topic encompasses—rather roughly—outlaw emotions, Brown v. Board of Education, and the things about law Read More >

By Libby Adler Read the full text (PDF) The most surprising thing he ever said to me was “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re really quite beautiful.” We were sitting across the table from one another in a bistro in Boston’s Back Bay, enjoying a brief escape from the demands of our studies. Read More >

By Zinaida Miller and Brishen Rogers Read the full text (PDF) It no longer seems revolutionary to say, as Duncan Kennedy did over twenty years ago, that “Law schools are intensely political places.” As Kennedy himself argues in this issue of Unbound, today’s law professors “have correctly and honestly internalized the irreducible political element in Read More >

By Jennie Lin When I wrote my first legal memo, I felt as though I had bludgeoned a small creature to death. I did not know who or what this creature was—my reader? the English language? the art of writing?—but I knew that it was small and vulnerable, and that I had murdered it. I Read More >

By Duncan Kennedy In this lecture, I offer an intellectual historical narrative of debates about the role of social justice in legal education in the United States from around 1900 to the present. I would be surprised (not unpleasantly) if Sir Elwyn Jones had ever turned his attention to this topic. Nonetheless, my hope is Read More >

By Janet Halley In Caring for Justice, Robin West argues that patriarchy operates by harming women on every conceivable dimension but especially in sexuality and reproduction; that women nevertheless gain access in both domains to an ethic of care that is redemptive for the world; and that bringing that ethic fully to bear as the Read More >

By Thomas M. Franck There is a certain lack of resonance, in my field of international law, to the political concepts of “right” and “left”. Within this discursive void, we may find a tale of some more general importance to lawyers and others concerned with the role of norms in the making of social policy. Read More >

By Richard Thompson Ford Identity politics is nothing new. In a sense—apologies to the late Tip O’Neill—all politics are identities; all identities, political. Of course, when we use the phrase “identity politics” we mean something more specific. We don’t mean to evoke people who identify as Democrats, Republicans, Leftists, Conservatives, Libertarians, even when these identifications Read More >

By Christine Desan The vocabulary of time is exhausted: from the “post-modern” to “Generation X,” it expresses fatigue with the sequence of our efforts. We have mapped our steps with any number of methods—millennial to scientific, Enlightened to romantic, Marxist to positivist, Whig to progressive, neo-Whig to neo-progressive, soup to nuts. History, however, may have Read More >