“J Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School, has published one of those law and economics papers that so many of us have come to dread – you know, the kind that revisits some historical horror to explain to us why ‘game theory’ makes that historical horror perfectly OK, if you look at it just so. Or why some reactionary or bigoted political position somehow just makes rational sense. It’s the kind of pseudo-scholarship that demands that the reader first abstract away from everything that actually matters in law (like the fact that human beings are involved), and then reasons tendentiously but triumphally to its preordained conclusion …” (more)
[Dorf on Law, 10 February]
First posted 2021-02-10 14:44:54
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